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An Innovator on Campus President David G. Horner, who took the reins of The American College of on July 1, 2008, has made a big difference at all the institutions he has served. Now, five months into his presidency, he is on his way to doing 4 the same thing at ACG. In an interview with ACG Magazine, Dr. Horner dis - cussed the circumstances that brought him from Boston to and how he views the role of the president at an institution like ACG.

Literature’s Aims Dr. Ruth J. Simmons, president of Brown University in Provi - dence, Rhode Island, urged the hundreds of members of the graduating classes of Deree College, Junior College, and the Graduate School of The American College of Greece to make 12 great literature a part of their lives and use it as a source of in - spiration as they try to chart their course in the world. 21 Preventing Fire s Over the past several years, The American College of Greece has taken major steps to protect its campus and the surrounding forest of Mt. from fire. During a recent exercise, Greek firefighters also reminded members of the College community of some of the fundamentals of fire prevention and suppression. 10 news 24 athletics 28 careers 30 culture 33 faculty notes 49 reunions 60 class notes 72 closing thoughts

Searching for the Writer in You Alumnus Yorgos Kasfikis (DC‘04) returns to campus as an instructor 53 with the School of Continuing and Professional Studies n A R P S E D D O rd e Z- A I N G U p y S s a si x C i D C i r h m e R / NO I T rs o m R A s i s to r t T t n u o Pn a i E R I D s si t a i l Zu o e G o J p to o gi a H P si n h so l u o p o k a r g o a D O I T C O l E i n F TO e t e CO e N t c l so l u o d i l a G I ra c M N H P A R PY Vi O H - C si Cr o r TI D E r h a n a D i Z E S U s i Y xu c e ca m o n V i n uo l u o d to l E O re E e e h C - a i v R D A l t c uto t ve i t c M ra a TS D S E D n Cr o D C o t c re i d A s i r o t c re i r h A F F NG I ca m t s i u l n i uo l u o d to W i n m r a , r E T I R c e ffi O , ip a i L c e ffi O l C e R A a O S S SR u sn o i t a l d o f o a i H f I C M a m Co y r Ca A r a i d e i E T L l O s o a r te t e I F F si d sn o ci i t n a mu TI D E s n o i t a l e R . H C s i N N A ay m E D O c F O s a s a l o h D R D E b o l a k D A T N I e I a TO h T d n a o b i d e U T I T S h C E X E S I N I M e J h t e R sra aa v i A t u d te g a M sn o ci i t l a Pb u m si s s a n a to I T U me r e O I T i AR T f s i p r o i z a Har n a c i ti i d s c P E V di el , y t s N on e n o h t s O I T rl e o t L A a con ilaos b i r o C I V o e l Cl o ni to rela b ta e f h t r N T i v VD A E C N A et c t u i d e o t by e h E e tn e o s te stru d s i h f d e o ti o J E R P e h T r to e g t er. H i r e m A f rs py o S o o t t e l n h I o . t n rf n s n e u s s i t ti c s as f o e h E D I S f Das On e s m A s i a , c e re G e THE s r e . S t i t @ e d n r o ve rG they u p n a c e l Cl o th T N E M B f o ac u ce r e r a l c O t u o b a p O T N alot k e l i a o d Pn a e t i cr s i l b AM d n a e ci n a l a n o i N e e rg a h c gma e l Cl o a t ce eg . n i qu yt i n he z a g a M H T g ti y g so l u o p t o o gi a t o ERI d e h o i ai ci y rb r i a L . o , t i n u m m co s t i e g e l l Co a pe s n E hans e g p i e re Ad s n li a l.gr CA m CR E V O e p s re t n tn e co t , e fl bo p x e b ti r to f o y I i n a v reg e n N n a i s wou t c s o en s u re G e b m e m o i c rs e CO t a f e. ra e c ffi o t wi y l l a u n c u f o t yl l a tha t e th h is d e s The : e r e e D la a LL ld e m ni ce ro Ps re ce e re G e y. e s o h t t l r ei l a i io EGE t , Co . li s r e y i i r t n l a n On we n n n s n o i t i s o p k A e d i by p p e Th e l g l eg e l l Co C the o l dn a f o OF rod rofe fo eg vi f o t G t n f t a h t ti ar c p o e h t suc ew, an r e m A a e G M e u yo d i v a D e h t th u to ge ’ s s R c ffi O ce a t u a k EECE an h fa p le Pr . i ga requ se e o rce t n n a e c i i 3 w c c wo w r o h i s e n c by k 8, n a ul zi cu . G e p o o s. o h a c e l M n t k r f you t n e d s ld r e g e l Cl o l i ma a i r r e n r o H y l red e lea AGAZINE , th ng t a t m sti b w g n i e k a nd cla in k o ec d em wi a rea tui co s e n r o H ma n s e c aus g rsh l ts e h t a an be n di wh o th fin co ti k r t t w e n n n i o i e r o nu pr p i ’r e s o n g d s thi i t th of w . n b in i tr o e m pub co i f a e eco y t a o ve s th T Th b g t H fe i p p r nib tr e h pres r e t n a u en res e a o i s re use neror , to e lica e m s tio nyo p C l a m era wel e C th pe u e o o i w e i v ve fu , t n e d ns o uted - d la l re ff a a c n leg l r ts c en l. l n i r k n t s n o

THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE MAGeg AZINE e to w to a o z it s t t tia i s e C ed h th h n i e to i h a th ts fo l l o n o h t i t yfacult . e t r o n o h lu ig is l er eres t u t eir vers T tra t w r hi s i h t n n i g e b a , e g e m o h hi i fo t n s o li ni e a ns a t s h g ted k rum m or rd ion rea va i i h i s Pre g n i s i m a the e u s s ti a y s ts -lo ur O e ue ny on s in a g n i o fo t s d i o a o nd hel f t i t n e d th l wa of ing k f are r r e g a p ( a fa s e ex o n e i m Th d a ycult ts o a y f Col - aw a s, i o g t u e h t l a i s o e in mis y les i r e a f Am a n m , ) 4 th m eg I rd- s e ovatio u g u a n sio i s re p a o e s o g n er e k r s , i n d f o C n a i el in o c n i g d r e d a e l t n e d r F n an l e c leg d fo n. o how l a r n a my es r Co t a r b e e G d Yr a e l a i o ab rek o lle a t n o h dn a s o n e t ge m y r o io er July ut 0 0 2 e s h of re u se igh us v e h t 1, Gre 2 - 8 - e h t e a er in f o 208. t n t 9 0 0 ece - ed i w D s, r. ll uca a h t . a M d i v a D e h T - t ga E c l o v e zin d c e l .G st n e e o t i i t fi n ve ds yl th r e A C G 33,000 approximate number of alumni from all ACG divisions A l u m companies and organizations in Greece and internationally that employ ACG alumni 1,700 n i b 22,828 men and women have graduated from Deree College up to 2008 y t

alumni who have graduated from Junior College h (a majority have gone on to graduate from Deree, as well) 4,803 e n have graduated from Pierce College 8,362 u m

approximate number of Pierce College alumni who have also graduated from Deree College 1,200 b e r prominent Deree College alumni have been featured s 96 in six“Success Stories” ads

approximate number of alumni e-mail addresses collected so far by the Office of Alumni Relations 11,000

number of alumni whose contact information 7,500 was updated in the past 3 years alone

number of Deree Alumni Representatives (DARS) representing Deree College voluntarily around the world 80

215 books written so far by alumni and donated to the Office of Alumni Relations

number of Pierce College alumnae artists who participated in the 2006 exhibition“A Tribute to the alumnae artists of Pierce College” 41 s o l u o p o t o

An Innovator on Campus i g a n a

By Harilaos H. Daskalothanassis P s o r y p S

President David G. Horner, who took the reins of The American College of Greece on July 1, 2008, has made a big dif - y h p a ference at all the institutions he has served. Now, five months into his presidency, he is on his way to doing the same r g o thing at ACG. In an interview with ACG Magazine, Dr. Horner discussed the circumstances that brought him from t o h

Boston to Athens, and how he views the role of president at an institution like ACG. P Interview

here is a popular saying that life is what unfolds while you are making Tother plans. Last winter, perched in his warm Boston office at the executive search firm whose academic division he headed, Dr. David G. Horner had no im - mediate plans to spend even a few days in Greece – let alone his foreseeable fu - ture. But, unbeknownst to him, here in Athens and in the offices and homes of trustees of The American College of Greece around the United States, events and discussions were unfolding, and mental connections being made, that would align with Dr. Horner’s past to link the veteran educator to the future of the College. There was the search for a new president of the College which had proven fruitless until that point; the professional and personal association of Horner and ACG trustee Dr. Charles Cook – former director of the Commission on Higher Education of the New England As - sociation of Schools and Colleges, which a major institution like The American Col - President Horner with students from accredits ACG; Dr. Horner’s reputation as a lege of Greece is quite different from the Deree College. higher education leader who had man - average job search as we know it. It means aged to turn around two institutions – the that the institution interviews the candi - ACG campus] in the US or anywhere else in latest being North Park University in date, but also the candidate interviews the world, I cannot tell you where that cam - Chicago, Illinois, where he served for 18 the institution. For a perfect match, both pus is.” years; the ad for ACG’s presidential search sides have to enter into the relationship During his visit Horner was also im - that appeared in the Chronicle of Higher eagerly and with a conviction that the pressed by the people. “I sensed real en - Education, which Dr. Horner had seen as strengths and ambitions of one side ergy, a real passion for the College, a keen part of his own academic search work but match those of the other. In this case, it appreciation for what ACG has become had paid scant attention to; a teaching visit also involved a family’s change of life during the presidency of Dr. Bailey, and at to Greece undertaken in the mid-1990s by plans, but according to President Horner, the same time an open, forward-looking Horner’s wife, Dr. S. Sue Horner, and a sub - the moment he picked up the phone to spirit,” Horner said.The feelings of affection sequent cruise the couple enjoyed around call his spouse to ask what she thought, were mutual. Asked their opinion of - the Greek . The threads that make he had already anticipated the answer. ous candidates that came to see the Col - up the fabric of Dr. Horner’s appointment “She thought for a moment and then said: lege, members of the College’s faculty and as President of The American College of ‘I think that would be quite fascinating,’” administration overwhelmingly preferred Greece are multitudinous, and their indi - Dr. Horner recalls. Dr. Horner. vidual significance became apparent only Horner’s candidacy also involved a visit With some months as the College’s pres - after the fact. to the College in March of this year, and ident under his belt, one of Dr. Horner’s re - “Charles Cook, who was a member of the that was what clinched it.“I was impressed grets is that ACG and its beautiful campus board’s search committee, called me and and thoroughly amazed,” he told ACG Mag - are not better known in the United States. at some point in our conversation he said azine of his first tour of the campus.“I now “One of my personal objectives is that after ‘David, this is a job I think you should take have the experience of giving campus the years of my presidency, ACG will be a look at,’” Dr. Horner recounted in a recent tours to others, and those people respond very well-known in the US and the next interview with ACG Magazine. Dr. Horner’s inevitably the way I did,” he said. “They are time we do a presidential search, there will instinctive reaction was to refuse; his life completely impressed by the overall qual - be a flood of interested people who un - was settled in his native environment of ity of the College - the facilities, the beauty derstand what an important institution this Boston after years of living in various cities and dramatic presentation of the setting, is, and what a great opportunity for lead - around the United States. But, partly out of the artwork throughout the campus - it’s ership it offers,” he said. courtesy to Dr. Cook, he agreed at least to stunning, it’s one of the most distinctive David G. Horner grew up in the stable explore the opportunity in more detail. As and attractive campuses in the world.” environment of a middle class town in Mas - he learned more about the College and the Sometimes it takes a set of fresh eyes to sachusetts, 50 miles south of Boston. His nature of the job, he became sufficiently in - appreciate what most of us who study or parents were immigrants – his father, an ex - trigued to follow up with an extensive set work at ACG take for granted. But here it is cellent soccer player whose playing skills of questions for Dr. Cook, and following from a man who has seen more than a few helped him survive the Great Depression, that conversation and a discussion with his campuses around the United States:“If you was from Ireland, and his mother from spouse, he agreed to put his name up for ask me to name a campus, of approxi - Canada. He attended a private school for consideration. mately the same scale of operation, that boys where he blossomed: he excelled in Being a candidate for the presidency of has a more dramatic presentation than [the athletics, became president of the student

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President Horner at the John S. Bailey professional preparation,” Horner recalled. larger and stronger institution. Mergers Library at Deree College (left) and with It was Haas who suggested one such pro - were and are rare in American higher edu - Pierce College students (right). gram in education administration: Stan - cation, but this merger became the subject ford University, in California, one of the of a Ph.D. thesis at Vanderbilt University, government, and got lots of academic world’s great educational institutions. which judged it very positively. awards. It was there that he learned the Haas’ urging and Horner’s own interests Two years after relinquishing his post at value of a school environment that em - and inclinations led him away from the Barrington and after a stint teaching part- powers students. He also learned some - classic academic path: professor, dean, vice time at Harvard University’s Graduate thing about himself that would apply to his president, president. “[Haas] said, ‘David, School of Education, he moved to the pres - later career:“I flourish in environments that you know enough about philosophy; you idency of North Park University in Chicago, are more personal – not 600 people in a will understand the academic side, but Illinois, in 1987. North Park “was not in a classroom – it’s the personal relationship what schools are really going to need is strong position,” according to Horner. En - with the faculty that drew me to schools someone who understands complex ad - rollment was down sharply (30 percent in where you can be known, which is why I ministrative issues in a sophisticated way, the 3-4 years prior to his arrival there), the oriented my career towards those kinds of and you are not going to get that by being student demographics in America were educational institutions.” a professor.’” It was while he was pursuing discouraging, and morale at the school was After high school, Horner attended his joint M.B.A. and Ph.D. in higher educa - low. Horner had to make some painful de - Brown University and in his junior year tion administration and policy analysis at cisions to stem the bleeding, but, as he put transferred to Barrington College, a small Stanford that Horner received a phone call, it,“we were able to convey that the school institution in Rhode Island, which he was much like the one that brought him to The did have a future and that if we would do destined to lead just a few years later, American College of Greece. He was just 29 some of those difficult things, it would take when, at the age of 29, he became the at the time, and a former philosophy pro - us in that positive direction.” youngest currently serving college presi - fessor had nominated him for the presi - And it did – exceeding even his most dent in America and probably the entire dency of his alma mater, Barrington ambitious dreams in those early days. Dur - world. He graduated summa cum laude College. Cognizant of his young age, he ini - ing Horner’s 18 years as president, North with a BA in philosophy and briefly flirted tially ignored the call, but then allowed Park grew substantially in size, its campus with a career as an entrepreneur (at age 21 himself to be convinced. was transformed, its programs greatly ex - he started an indoor tennis club with his At Barrington, Horner proved several panded. “It was a good run,” he says in ret - older brother). But academia won him things to himself and to others: he could rospect. Once again an unconventional over when he received an assistantship to do the job of president, and he could do it move was part of the equation: an innova - teach and to study for his master’s in phi - well. Most of all, he discovered that he was tive (some would say radical) tuition plan losophy at the University of Rhode Island. comfortable thinking outside of the box that boosted enrollment, improved stu - There he found an influential mentor in and pursuing the unconventional, even the dent selectivity and enhanced operating the person of Fr. William Paul Haas, a risky. “I do not know what it is about my revenue. philosopher who had just resigned the personality, and it can be both a strength One of the basic things Horner has presidency of Providence College, a sizable and a weakness, but the track record is learned from his long experience as presi - Catholic institution in Providence, Rhode pretty clear that I am willing to do some dent is what Demosthenes preached to the Island. Horner shared an office with Haas, very unconventional things,” he told ACG Athenians two-and-a-half millennia ago: and the older man infused his disciple with Magazine. At deeply troubled Barrington intentions matter, but the means to realize his love of college administration. “He he managed to stabilize the college and ef - them are just as essential. Horner quotes thought that the challenges of higher ed - fect its merger with Gordon College of Dr. D. Elton Trueblood, a noted 20th cen - ucation in America requireded specific, Massachusetts, which resulted in a much tury American Quaker author and theolo -

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2008-09 Named Presidential InauguralYear

The current academic year 2008-2009 has been officially named “Presiden - tial InauguralYear 2008-2009” in cele - bration of Dr. David G. Horner’s gian who was chaplain at both Harvard affords this is to limit the expense by re - assuming the presidency of The and Stanford universities: “Holy shoddy is ducing quality. So, if you are committed to American College of Greece. still shoddy.” In other words, as Horner par - the traditional European model (some - President Horner assumed his du - aphrases Trueblood, “You can have a mar - times called the Scandinavian model), you ties on July 1, 2008. On that same day velous mission, but if you do not have the face an unappealing choice between ac - resources behind it, you simply will never cess and quality.” Dr. Horner’s predecessor, John S. Bai - produce quality.” Horner believes that a model similar to ley, became chancellor of ACG. A se - “The American College of Greece,” the one long established in the United ries of events will mark this special Horner says, “because of its development States and increasingly in the United year for the College. over the years under Dr. Bailey’s leadership, Kingdom, where public and private edu - The highlight will be the presiden - has become a place that has a wonderful cation co-exist harmoniously and tuition tial inauguration ceremony, which mission – bringing the best of American is charged to those who can afford it and education to Greece – but it also has the subsidized for those who can not, not will take place on March 7, 2009, at physical and the financial resources to ex - only avoids the choice between access the Pierce CollegeTheater. Formal in - ecute that mission at a very high level.” and quality but also is fairer. Horner ar - augurations of college or university Is this mission – bringing the best of gues, “In an all-free system, society subsi - presidents are pageants full of sym - American education to Greece – truly wor - dizes even the studies of the very wealthy. bolism, as well as opportunities to thy? His answer comes as a wave of excite - But, education is both a public and a pri - rededicate an institution to its mis - ment:“Higher education is one of the very vate good; it helps society – and that is best things America has developed,” why society must promote it – but it helps sion. Horner responds. “To play a part in bring - individuals as well. So why is it unjust for The year’s celebrations started with ing that excellence back to Greece where individuals to pay for some of the cost of the inauguration of the new ACG Art it all began, where theWestern intellectual something they are going to benefit from, Gallery, the newest and most modern tradition has its roots, has profound mean - especially if they can afford it?” art exhibition space in Athens.The of - ing for me.” A strategic thinker and a person who ficial opening took place December 3, In looking at the educational landscape trusts statistics and numbers as well as his in Greece and internationally, President “gut” – as he put it – Horner prefers to lead 2008, with an exhibition of works Horner sees two competing trends. One is by building consensus around basic prin - from the College’s own art collection, the demand for greater access to quality ciples and moving speedily to the imple - titled, “Silent Dialogues: Multimedia education that can lift all people to a better mentation phase. He spent last summer – Portraits throughout Time”. standard of living, material and spiritual. he took over as president on July 1 – learn - The Presidential InauguralYear cel - The other is the desire to make education ing about ACG, and then, in early fall, in ebrations will end with the first ever more affordable – and in the case of the several open sessions, he presented for dis - traditional European model, free. But these cussion with the College community a ACG Alumni Gala Dinner, in May 2007. two tendencies are in tension if not con - draft strategic plan, a nascent blueprint for Other inaugural year events are tradictory, Horner says: “To provide low how the institution will move forward. His expected to include music concerts, cost (in the extreme, free), high quality ed - openness surprised many, but, as he says, poetry readings, and scholarly ucation, a society must limit the people “educational institutions are not fertile conferences. who are given access to education – oth - ground for authoritarian leadership.” Every - More information will be posted as erwise it will bankrupt the society. If on the one has to feel part of the process, and as other hand, a society is committed to many people as possible need to be on the they become available on the Col - broad access to education, the only way to same page. lege’s website (www.acg.edu). o

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An important component for a success - that in a way that retains the support of the spect and the support of anyone associ - ful institution is to build what Horner calls various constituencies.” ated with a college or a university.You have “a community culture of mutual respect.” In those constituencies he includes the to earn these through the way you do your He says, “I think a college president has to governing board, alumni, students, faculty, work. It’s not just about making the num - do two major things. He or she has to ad - staff, and external stakeholders, cognizant bers go in the right direction, it’s about the vance the institution, whether that means of the fact that individuals have many people, the family that defines and sur - building new buildings, growing the en - choices of where to study, donate money, rounds an institution and about keeping dowment, growing enrollment, or enhanc - work, or teach.“I think of colleges and uni - this family with you not because they must ing the institution’s reputation and versities as voluntary associations,” he says. be but because they freely and enthusias - prestige, and then the president has to do “You can’t command the loyalty, the re - tically choose to be.” o A Roaming Scholar By Harilaos H. Daskalothanassis

President David Horner’s arrival on cam - pus last July meant an additional benefit for the College: the arrival with him of Dr. S. Sue Horner (the “S.” stands for Sandra), President Horner’s spouse and an accom - plished scholar in an area that has not been part of the traditional ACG curricu - lum: gender studies and religion. This fall, Dr. S. Sue Horner at the ACG campus. Dr. Horner was named scholar-in-resi - dence of The American College of Greece, pressed her most.“I was entranced by the and in an interview with ACG Magazine sculpture,” she told ACG Magazine. “That she said that she looks forward to intro - is what made the strongest impression ducing a new subject to the College’s on - on me.” She spent hours at the National going academic discourse. Museum, visited the , saw the The Cleveland-born Dr. Horner has famous Charioteer of Delphi – “I was spent more than 24 years as a presiden - amazed that these beautiful objects even tial spouse, moving to several cities as her survived” — and then went to the Louvre husband’s career developed. But that did and the British Museum to see the rest.“In not faze her. “I grew up in an airline fam - a short period of time, I was able to see ily, so travel was part of my life from early the Parthenon in its totality,” she said. on,” she said. So, even as her husband pur - The Horners have two children, Marc, a sued his career, she always found oppor - financial adviser with UBS who lives in tunities to study, write and teach in the Chicago with his wife Christine and their US and abroad. Being a presidential four children, and Shanna, who studied spouse can be a consuming experience, art as well as culinary arts and now, along but Dr. Horner, a veteran, seems to have Above: President Horner and Dr. Sue Horner with her husband Brian, are the chef- struck a balance that suits her own inter - with their daughter Shanna and son-in-law Brian at their Kennebunk, Maine, inn . owners of The Kennebunk Inn, in the his - ests and her family. Bellow: Marc Horner with his family. toric town of Kennebunk, Maine. o Her academic background is as versa - tile as it is impressive: she holds a BA in Romance languages from Barrington Col - lege, a master’s in library science from San Jose State University in California, a master’s in theological studies from the Harvard Divinity School, and in 2000 she completed her Ph.D. in religion and American culture at Northwestern Uni - versity, in Illinois. During an active career she has written extensively and taught at several universities. Dr. Horner first came to Greece in the mid-90s. She spent a week here with stu - dents from the US who were taking a six- month course in Sweden. But it was not the weather or the landscape that im -

8 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 Opinion Academic Excellence, Social Justice, Economic Development Greece stands to benefit greatly from its American, non-profit higher education institutions

This article appeared in the July-August issue of Business Partners, the bi-monthly magazine of the American Hellenic Chamber of Commerce

By David G. Horner , Ph.D. and John S. Bailey , Sc.D., Ed.D., LL.D., D.H.L.*

ATHENS, Greece. - America is widely re - garded as the world leader in higher edu - cation. The degrees earned in America’s accredited public and private institutions, both domestic and international, are re - spected and recognized around the globe. The American system encompasses 4,300 public and private institutions and enrolls 18 million students. Private, non-profit in - stitutions, which account for 38% of the in - stitutions and 20% of the enrollment, are regarded as essential to the overall quality of the American system for a number of reasons, including the following:

Pinnacles of Excellence and Advance - ment of Knowledge. The private, non- profit sector of American higher education features some of the most prominent“pin - nacles of educational excellence” in the world and is responsible for some of the most important scientific discoveries and the most influential scholarship as well. For the personal, student-centered learning Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. The example, the latest Times Higher Educa - environment of private colleges and uni - American College of Greece holds accred - tion – QS World University Rankings listed versities. itation in the same professional associa - 12 American, private, non-profit universi - tion that accredits Harvard University, ties in the top 20 universities world-wide. Economic Relief for the Public Sector Boston University, Yale University, Brown Between 1999 and 2008, 48 Nobel Prizes and Economic and Cultural Develop - University, Tufts University and other cel - were awarded to scholars from American ment for Communities. America’s private, ebrated private as well as public institu - universities; 28 of these awards were given non-profit higher education institutions tions. Many of our 33,000 alumni, most of to faculty from private, non-profit Ameri - save the public sector billions of dollars an - whom live in Greece, have been admitted can universities with the remaining 20 nually in educational costs (i.e., the cost of for advanced study to the most presti - going to faculty at public institutions. educating approximately 3.5 million stu - gious institutions in the world and have dents), while giving parents and students contributed significantly in virtually every Student-Centered Learning, Social Mo - the enormous benefit of educational field of human endeavor. bility and Social Justice. Surprisingly, stu - choice.These institutions (along with their We believe that Greece will only benefit dents attending major public universities public counterparts) are also important from the recognition of American, non- in America often come from more wealthy catalysts for economic and cultural devel - profit, higher education institutions, which family backgrounds than those attending opment in the communities in which they can demonstrate their educational quality private, non-profit institutions. But, recent are located; one researcher describes them as well as their willingness to invest in studies have shown that private, non- as“saviors of our cities.” long-term service to Greece. Such recog - profit, higher education institutions pro - nition will make more fully available to duce a disproportionately high percentage The American College of Greece, which Greece the advantage that America has of students who go on to earn Ph.D. de - comprises five divisions including Pierce long enjoyed from its vibrant, private, non- grees (especially in the sciences) and grad - College and Deree College, is proud to profit, higher education sector. o uate more undergraduate students within have offered education reflecting the best four years, including students from socially of American, non-profit education for the * David G. Horner and John S. Bailey are, re - disadvantaged backgrounds, than public benefit of Greece since our establishment spectively, president and chancellor of The institutions. These results are attributed to in Athens in 1923 at the invitation of American College of Greece.

The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 9 News ACG PaysTribute to John and Irene Bailey

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The American College of Greece paid 2 tribute to President John S. Bailey and his wife, long-time Cultural Affairs Director Irene Bailey, during an evening of poignant ceremonies on June 20, on the eve of Commencement 2008. Ten days later, Dr. Bailey assumed his new duties as chancellor of The American College of Greece, after 33 years as pres - ident, and Dr. David G. Horner became the College’s new president. During the tribute ceremonies, the Deree College library was named the John S. Bailey Library and the Open Air Theater was named Irene Bailey Theater. The changes came following a deci - sion of the College’s Board of Trustees, whose president, Peter Thun, was at hand to announce the decision and par - ticipate in the official unveilings. Joining Thun were several current and former members of the College’s Board of Trustees. One of them, Jon Westling, former president of Boston University, delivered a moving tribute to President

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Bailey, including him in the select group 5 of university leaders who have trans - formed higher education over the past 150 years. A portrait of President Bailey by the dis - tinguished American portraitist, Ron Sherr, which was also commissioned by the Board, was unveiled during the library ceremony. The portrait is on display at the entrance to the John S. Bailey Library. The naming of the Irene Bailey Theater was preceded by a concert of classical and American music, as well as by the screen - ing of a video by Deree Professor Daniel 4 McCormac recounting the long and trans - formative tenure of President Bailey at the helm of The American College of Greece. Hundreds of guests from Greece and abroad, including President-elect David G. Horner and his wife Dr. Sue Horner, members of the faculty and the adminis - tration, alumni, and many friends of the College participated in the ceremonies, which ended with a moonlit dinner by the College’s Olympic pool. o

3 1. President John S. Bailey speaks to guests during the dedication of the John S. Bailey Library. His portrait by artist Ron Sherr is seen left.

2. M rs. Irene Bailey during the dedication of the Irene Bailey Theater.

3. (L. to r.) President and M rs. Bailey, with Dr. S. Sue Horner and President-elect David G. Horner during the dedication ceremonies. Dr. David Horner assumed his new duties on July 1, 2008. On the same day, Dr. Bailey assumed the position of chancellor.

4. Aghia Paraskevi Mayor Vassilis Giannakopoulos with ACG music professor and pianist Tatiana Papageorgiou.

5. Former Parliament President Anna Benaki-Psarouda, a PC alumna (right), and Athens Law School professors Kalliopi and Dionyssis Spinellis attend the theater dedication.

6. Former Boston University President and ACG Trustee Jon Westling, who spoke movingly of Chancellor Bailey’s transformative leadership of ACG. 6

The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 11 News Brown University President Is 2008 Commencement Speaker

Dr. Ruth J. Simmons, president of world- renowned Brown University in Provi - dence, Rhode Island, urged hundreds of members of the graduating classes of Deree College, Junior College, and the Graduate School ofThe American College of Greece to make great literature a part of their lives as adults and use it as a source of inspiration as they try to chart their course in the world. Dr. Simmons’ speech was delivered at Commencement 2008, where the gradu - ates, along with more than 5.000 mem - bers of their families and friends, gathered to receive their diplomas from the hands of Dr. John S. Bailey, who this year cele - brated his 33rd and last commencement as president of The American College of Greece. On July 1, 2008, Dr. Bailey as - sumed his new duties as chancellor of the College. At the ceremony, which took place on June 21 at the Peace and Friendship Sta - dium in Neo Phalero, President Simmons was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Dr. Bailey was also awarded an honorary doctorate for his long service to ACG and to the cause of international ed - ucation. A third honorary degree recipient was Theodore Lyras, a former provost of The American College of Greece. Amb. Daniel Speckhard, the US envoy to Greece, also spoke to the graduates, paying homage to Greece’s commitment From the top: a view of Peace and Friendship Stadium during Commencement 2008; former to education and telling them that at ACG President (now Chancellor) John S. Bailey is invested with the traditional hood by Peter Thun, they received the best education Greece chairman of the College’s board of trustees, and Katerina Thomas, vice president for academic and the United States have to offer. o affairs; former Provost Theodore Lyras, is invested by President Bailey and Chairman Thun.

12 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 News “Literature’s Aims, Society’s Future”

Following is the full text of the speech by gle. In the most commanding way, this sion that could be more useful in solving Dr. Ruth J. Simmons, president of Brown early literature laid bare the errors and glo - immediate social problems. To a degree, University, at the 2008 Commencement ries of man in his efforts to comprehend this argument held sway. However, the of Deree College, Junior College, and the and secure his place in the world. discovery of Cesaire and other writers of Graduate School of The American College It is no wonder that, in all times, litera - the negritude movement caused me to re - of Greece. ture and the arts have been central to un - think the validity of calls for a more activist derstanding and empowering social and strategy. Good evening and thank you for welcom - political change. We saw the power of lit - In reading his brilliant literary mani - ing me on this celebratory occasion.This is, erature in pre-revolutionary France, in festo, Cahier d’un Retour au Pays Natal , I I regret to say, my very first visit to Greece, twentieth-century African liberation found reason to be more hopeful about a nation whose historical and literary tradi - movements, and, indeed, in contempo - what literature could achieve in improv - tions have lived in my consciousness since rary struggles for liberation and equality ing society. Cesaire expressed what I felt I was a young girl.This initial visit recalls for around the world. It was the potency of its and gave me a reason to continue my me the wonder I felt when I first awakened impact that drew me to the study of liter - studies: to the clarifying and liberating power of lit - ature and the ongoing evidence of its erature and the arts. Indeed, it is to that force that kept me bound to it through for it is not true that the work awakening that I owe the path my life has the years. of man is done taken to this stage today. I could not be When I was a student at Harvard, the that we have no business being on earth happier to be with you. work of Aime Cesaire, a lion of French lit - that we parasite the world No serious student of Western literature erature, saved me from turning away from that it is enough for us to heel and the arts has escaped the reach of clas - this pursuit. At the time, having difficulty to the world sical Greek mythology, art, philosophy and perceiving a meaningful role for myself in whereas the work has only begun literature. Long before the idea of a global the social revolution taking place in the and man still must overcome all the consciousness arose, these great ideas and United States, I was being exhorted by ac - interdictions wedged in the recesses works were reaching across oceans and tivists to abandon the study of literature of his fervor and no race has evoking recognition in vastly different in favor of more practical pursuits. I a monopoly on beauty, cultures of the verities of mankind’s strug - needed, they said, to undertake a profes - on intelligence, on strength 1

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This fearless “speaking truth to power” scend the temporal and physical limita - and recovery of their communities of about the interdictions of life drew me in tions of lived experience. We follow char - workers. Skillful and affecting expression because it affirmed the place of literature acters and their stories across the span of of the stories of loss and devastation in a troubled age. Cornel West, in “Black their lifetimes. Entering their hearts, souls, began the healing process. Knowing how Strivings in a Twilight Civilization, 2” cites and minds, we are an omniscient pres - to express grief in meaningful terms, how the critical voices of Ralph Ellison, James ence in their midst, understanding their to speak of the horror experienced, and Baldwin and Toni Morrison, among others, mistakes, their omissions and their tri - how to arouse hope in those buried in de - in examining what he calls “the crisis of umphs. What a privileged place the reader spair was the knowledge most needed in race” in America. Where better to find a enjoys and what a benefit he derives from that moment. map of the consciousness of a people this journey! Many of you will be leaders in a diverse than in the great literary works that arise Unfortunately, some policy makers global community. That will require that from that consciousness? In that sense, today have concluded that society can you navigate through frozen seas and un - reading literature has an immensely prac - only advance through the support of sci - seen barriers. Whether you are engaged tical value, even if we agree that this is not ence and technology. Literature and the in the arts, business, social science en - its primary purpose. arts are often erroneously deemed less deavors, or scientific discovery, the beauty Still, before I discovered Cesaire, aware - important to the health and advancement and insights that creative works offer can ness of the ability of literature to reveal in - of society. This conclusion fails the test of save you from error and help you lead sights into social and psychological logic as it fails the test of experience. others more ably. dilemmas had lingered in my mind. Born The world today is understandably in - You have had the benefit of an excellent before the United States civil rights move - toxicated with the power of scientific education, but your learning will not end ment began to address inequalities of analysis and discovery. Science has given here. For decades hence, you will have the race and gender, I struggled from my ear - us breathtaking discoveries to which we opportunity to discover new literatures liest years to understand the bizarre world owe longer life, improved tools, greater and to grasp through the experience of into which I had been born – a world efficiency and ease of work, and a host of the arts elusive differences among peo - where my race limited everything I could other advantages that make our lives ples. Take advantage of this ever-present do. But in studying literature, I was on an better. Every day, science brings us new source of knowledge, for it can enable you equal footing with every other reader, understanding of the world; the recent not only to discover more about yourself, making it more evident to me that there Mars mission is an example that reveals but also to better reveal to others who were ways in which my freedom of move - yet again that no matter how much we you are. The need to understand ourselves ment and strength of intellect could not try, we will never exhaust the need to and others is a lifelong, age-old pursuit be constrained by segregation and dis - employ science to understand our world that will never become irrelevant or be ex - crimination. better. tinguished. As Marcus Aurelius noted,“To Toni Morrison describes the power of understand the true quality of people, you writers in the following way: Humanistic studies bring to mankind must look into their minds, and examine “Writers are among the most sensitive, skills and knowledge of a different but no their pursuits and aversions.” Examining the most intellectually anarchic, most rep - less important nature. As we create tools those pursuits and aversions is the very resentative, most probing of artists. The and substances that make life easier, we stuff of literature and the arts. ability of writers to imagine what is not need to be able to imagine, at the same The study and enjoyment of literature, the self, to familiarize the strange and time, the wider implication of these ad - the humanities and the arts is a vast, di - mystify the familiar, is the test of their vances on the experience of living. Sci - verse, fascinating and uplifting realm power.” 3 ence cannot teach us how to live life, how that, when taken hand in hand with sci - Writers inspired in me an appreciation to love, or how to breathe meaning into ence and technology, makes the world for the magnificent heights and tragic the inexorable march of time. We may be function better. As you leave this col - depths of the human journey, and the able to make warfare with greater and lege, I hope you will draw upon this courage to fight through the barbaric stig - greater devastation, but what will help us realm at every moment that you need it mas that were once a dominant feature of cope with the aftermath of that devasta - and that the act of doing so will em - life in my country. tion: wasted, wounded lives; loss beyond power you greatly. For this has been the Many discouraged my study of litera - human comprehension; and the difficulty case for me. ture.“Why,” they often asked,“do you con - of peace and reconciliation? I wish you Godspeed, much success cern yourself with literature when you are Some years ago, following the 9/11 and boundless satisfaction in the years not free?” I persisted with literary studies tragedy in the United States, many busi - ahead. o precisely because of the elusive nature of ness leaders in the environs of ground freedom; for it was within literature that I zero found themselves wrestling with a could best imagine what that freedom problem for which they were unprepared. 1 Aime Cesaire, The Collected Poetry , could be. I also learned that, in the strug - Little in their rise to power and influence trans. Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith gle for freedom, literature can be as had prepared them for the challenges (Berkeley: University of California Press, trenchant as a sword. Paraphrasing Kafka, that they suddenly faced as leaders. The 1983) 77. it can be an ax breaking the frozen sea destruction of innocence and the fear en - 2 Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader that blocks our path. gendered by incomprehensible hatred re - (New York: Basic Books, 1999) 87-118 At every moment of my life, it has been quired something more than the 3 Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: to literature that I have turned to clarify technology needed to restore the stock Whiteness and the Literary Imagina - that path. For literature and the arts invite exchange, subway and telephone service. tion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, us in a multi-dimensional way to tran - They had to find a way to lead the healing 1992) 15.

14 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 News Venizelos Chair LectureTackles Education for the Disabled

Education for people with disabilities, a thousands of Greek citizens with some frequently neglected segment of the form of disability and their families. The Greek population, was the subject of a lec - lecture’s thrust was that, in spite of the ture by former parliamentarian Dr. Eleft - sometimes onerous cost of special educa - heria Bernidaki-Aldous which took place tion, in the end it can become a source of October 21 at the John S. Bailey Library. As wealth for our society because it releases chairman of the multi-party committee of the creative energies of thousands of peo - the parliament for people with disabilities ple who have been economically and so - during the 2004-07 parliamentary period, cially marginalized. Dr. Bernidaki-Aldous, was the driving force Chancellor John S. Bailey of The Amer - in compiling the committee’s report which ican College of Greece opened the event formed the basis of legislation passed this by explaining the purpose of the Eleft - fall by the . herios Venizelos Chair, which was The lecture was organized by the Col - founded in 2003. The Chair honors the lege’s Eleftherios Venizelos Chair for Mod - great 20th century statesman who in - ern Greek Studies. Dr. Bernidaki-Aldous, a vited the College to move to Athens fol - professor of classical literature at Deree lowing the Asia Minor catastrophe, and College, is the Chair’s current holder. who was a driving force for the modern - 1 The lecture attracted several current ization of the largely agrarian Greek so - and former members of parliament who ciety and its educational system. spoke in a spirit of bipartisanship about The evening was moderated by Haris the various challenges facing the educa - Daskalothanassis, the College’s director of tion for the disabled. Among them were media relations and publications. o Panayiotis Melas (), chair - man of the permanent committee of the parliament for social affairs; Thalia Drag - ona (Panhellenic Socialist Movement), a Photos 1-6: Dr. Eleftheria Bernidaki-Aldous; Pierce College alumna and professor at the Dimitra Arapoglou speaks in sign language; University of Athens who is a member of Panayiotis Kourouplis; Panayiotis Melas; both the special committee for equality, Thalia Dragona; a view of the audience with youth and human rights and the perma - Chancellor Bailey in the front row, 2 nent committee for educational affairs; second from left. Dimitra Arapoglou (Popular Orthodox Rally), a deaf-mute parliamentarian who is member of the permanent committees for social affairs and educational affairs, and of the special committee for equality, youth and human rights; and Panayiotis Kouroumplis, a blind former member of parliament with PASOK. Dr. Bernidaki-Aldous’ lecture was titled “Special Education in the Context of Equal - ity: From Theory to Practice” and centered on the practical challenges of translating legislation into reality for the hundreds of 3 4

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The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 15 News 1stWorld Summit on the Knowledge Society Organized atThe American College of Greece

Knowledge and learning are widely rec - ference at the Aghia Paraskevi campus, ments of WSKS 2008: 180 papers se - ognized as key enablers of sustainability presenting 165 research articles on the lected out of 300 submissions, resulting and development. The term“knowledge cutting edge of research in the subject. in three edited volumes to be published society” best describes the new context by Springer Publishers of Berlin and New of our lives and work. The convergence The presentations at WSKS 2008, cov - York. of information technologies in different ered the following five main tracks: The three volumes are titled “Emerg - sectors and application domains brings ing Technologies and Information Sys - the vision of a knowledge society ever  Social & Humanistic Computing for tems for the Knowledge Society,” “The closer to realty. the Knowledge Society - Emerging Open Knowledge Society: A Computer The notion of a knowledge society is Technologies for Society and Human - Science and Information Systems Mani - also a key subject of research globally ity, festo,” and “Information Technology, In - and a key term in the political discourse  Knowledge, Learning, Education, formation Systems and Knowledge of our times. As the recent presidential Learning Technologies and E-learning Management.” campaign in the United States demon - for the Knowledge Society WSKS 2008 had the support of 24 in - strated, there are worries that countries  Information Technologies - Knowl - ternational scientific journals, which will whose educational systems are less edge Management Systems - E-busi - publish special issues comprising papers

than what is desired will fall by the way - ness & Enterprise Information Systems presented in summit. Twelve of those side of history. And the 7th Research for the Knowledge Society journals are prestigious, ISI SCI/SSCI- Program (FP7) of the European Com -  Culture & Cultural Heritage -Technology listed. mission distributes billions of euros for for Culture Management - Manage - In his address to the opening plenary the analysis of requirements and the im - ment of Tourism and Entertainment - session, President David Horner of The plementation of human-centric appli - Tourism Networks in the Knowledge American College of Greece analyzed cations in almost every sector of human Society the role of the College as a leader in the activity.  E-government and E-Democracy for promoting the vision of a knowledge so - Some of these issues were tackled dur - the Knowledge Society ciety by offering high-quality human- ing the First World Summit on the Knowl - centric education, and enumerated a edge Society (WSKS) which took place in In the opening session, Dr. Miltiadis number of ACG initiatives. Dr. Horner late September at The American College Lytras, a part-time instructor of informa - thanked the participants, who came of Greece. The College sponsored and tion systems at Deree College who is from 43 different countries, for their con - hosted WSKS, which was organized by president of the Open Research Society tributions. Open Research Society, a non-govern - and who served as general chair of the Among the many speakers at WSKS, mental organization. summit, presented what he described as four stand out owing to their interna - More than 300 participants from 43 the “knowledge society challenges” and tional reputation as leading thinkers on countries attended the three-day con - also referred to the scientific achieve - the subject:

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Dr. John Carroll , Edward M. Frymoyer The Open Research Society also hon - Professor of Information Sciences and ored the keynote speakers with the Technology at Pennsylvania State Uni- Athena Lifetime Award for Ethos and versity, who analyzed the role of Contribution to Episteme. scenarios in shaping the future know- Following the event, the Open Re - ledge society. search Society expressed gratitude to Dr. Robert Tennyson of the University the College for its support of WSKS 2008, of Minnesota College of Education and and particularly to President Horner, Vice Human Development, who described President Vassilios Protopsaltis, Vice the learning theory he has developed President Katerina Thomas, Associate and analyzed a number of parameters Dean Lila Mordochae, and CIS Depart - that affect educational and learning ment Head Jenny Vagianou. performance. WSKS 2009 is scheduled for September Dr. Ambjorn Naeve , Director of the 16-18, 2009. o Knowledge Management Research Group at Sweden’s Royal Institute of Opposite page: a view of the proceedings on Technology, who discussed with great the upper level of the John S. Bailey Library. This page, clockwise from top: Prof. David enthusiasm the so-called“emulation so - Avison; Prof. Ambjorn Naeve; Prof. John ciety” and the need to look for real sus - Carroll; Dr. Miltiadis Lytras; members of the tainable learning, so that learning College administration attend the outcomes will contribute to social and proceedings - from left, Vice President humanistic visions. Katerina Thomas, Dr. S. Sue Horner, Dr. David Avison , president of the In - President Horner, Dean Kathleen Rys, Assistant Dean Anna Triantafillou, and ternational Association of Information Associate Dean Lila Mordochae.

Systems (AIS) and professor of the ESSEC Business School in Paris, who analyzed the key role of information systems as a significant pillar of the knowledge soci - ety. For three days the WSKS 2008, brought together academics, people from industry, policy makers, politicians, government officials, and active citizens that looked at the impact of information technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of today’s world: the state, business, society, and culture. The scientific and program committee honored 12 research articles with best paper awards, while ACG honored three keynote speakers for their contributions.

The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 17 News UN Agency Unveil sForeign Investment Data During Press Conference at ACG

lowing a peak year in 2008. In particular, Dr. Marina Papanastasiou, a professor at Greece attracted $1.9 billion in FDI during the Graduate School of The American Col - 2007 and dropped to 126th place among lege of Greece, who is also a research pro - 141 countries in its ability to attract such fessor at the Copenhagen Business School investment. This came during a banner in Denmark, presented the outline of the year for FDIs, which grew 30% globally report in her capacity as UNCTAD’s repre - over 2006. In 2006, two large corporate sentative in Greece. buyouts lifted Greece to $5.6 billion in FDI Drs. AnnieTriantafillou and Dimitris Dou - inflows. On the other hand, Greece los, professors of economics at Deree Col - showed continued strength as an investor lege, spoke about the benefits of FDIs for abroad. Greek investments abroad grew the host countries. Dr. Doulos mentioned 28% to $5.3 billion in 2007, most of them some of the impediments to foreign to the neighboring countries of South - investments in Greece, namely corruption, eastern Europe. bureaucracy, and an unstable tax regime. The numbers reflect perhaps the last He noted that Greece trails most countries Professor Marina Papanastasiou. good year for FDI globally, just prior to the in some of the indices that affect FDIs, such onset of the current financial and eco - as market size, labor cost and mobility, nomic crisis. transparency, infrastructures, tax stability, The United Nations Conference on Trade In addition to data about FDI flows, and even political continuity. and Development unveiled its World In - each year’s WIR looks at a sector of the Former minister Andreas Andrianopou - vestment Report for the year 2008 at a world economy in the context of invest - los, who now heads ACG’s Institute of press conference organized in coopera - ment flows. WIR 2008 focused on Diplomacy and Global Affairs, also spoke tion with The American College of Greece “Transnational Corporations and the In - about the problems Greece faces in at - last September. It was the second year in frastructures Challenge.” tracting foreign direct investment. a row that the UN agency chose to part - For this reason, the College invited Similar conferences took place simulta - ner with the College for the presentation Natasha Nistikaki, a special advisor to the neously in all world capitals, where data of the report, which is a comprehensive general secretariat for communications of was released to the press regarding each study of foreign investment flows during the Ministry of Transportation and Com - particular country. the previous year. munication, to talk about the Greek gov - Dozens of reporters from Greek media For the year 2007, the report showed ernment’s ambitious $2 billion program to organizations joined ACG faculty, stu - that foreign direct investment (FDI) in install or improve fiber optic networks in dents and administrators for the presen - Greece slowed down considerably, fol - most major Greek metropolitan areas. tation. o Valuable Certificate for MS in Finance Students

Eleven students of the Master of Science in finance program attending the Financial Statement Analysis course taught by Professor Lila Mordochae ob - tained the Certificate in International Financial Reporting (CIFR), in the last academic year. This certificate is a web-based professional qualification developed and organized by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). CIFR is a qualification which recognizes exposure to and understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards and gives students who earn it a significant advantage in the workplace. The students who took the CIFR exam successfully are: Fotini Ar - giropoulou (DC ’06), Alexandros Ballis (DC ’05), Dimitrios Chlaboutakis, Vas - silios Karapanayiotis (DC ’06), Konstantinos Paligiannopoulos (DC ’03), Sofia Pasagiannidou, Stylianos Pologiorgis (DC ’06), Dimitris Psariotis, Eleftheria Roka (DC ’02), Fioritsa Valeonti. o

Professor Mordochae (back row, third from left) with Stelios Pologiorgis, Fotini Argiripoulou, Vassilios Karapanayiotis, Alexander Ballis, Eleftheria Roka, and Konstantinos Paligiannopoulos.

18 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 News Olympian Scholarships Launched ACG teams up with companies to offer scholarships for Olympic athletes

To the applause of 22 former Greek Olympians and dozens of honored guests,The American College of Greece and the Hellenic Olympians Association – the official organization of Olympic athletes in Greece and a member of the World Olympians Association (WOA) – launched the College’s Olympian Scholarships Program during a dinner at the Yacht Club of Greece last June. The program will benefit athletes who have been ac - credited to participate in an Olympic Games, by giving them the opportunity to pursue undergraduate studies at Deree College with full tuition scholarships. The Olympian Scholarships are offered in recognition of the College’s close relationship with the Olympic movement. The College served as a designated training site for the ATHENS 2004 organization and was the official training site for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) during the 2004 Olympics in Athens. It was later named an official training site for the USOC. Several Greek Olympic athletes and teams have used the College’s facilities to train for major events. The College has instituted the Olympic Legacy Pro - gram to promote the Olympic spirit, and the Olympian Scholarships are one of the program’s components. The first Olympian Scholarships are made possible, on the one hand, through gifts by Marfin Egnatia Bank and Mr. Evangelos Marinakis, President and CEO of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp., and, on the other hand, by equivalent matching funds provided by The American College of Greece. Mr. Marinakis was joined by Efthymios Bouloutas, the CEO of Marfin Egnatia Bank, as an honored guest at the dinner. Among the guests were the Mayor of , Panayiotis Fasoulas, himself an Olympian with the Greek basketball team, the Mayor of Aghia Paraskevi, Vassilis Yiannakopou - los, and the head of the Hellenic Stock Exchange, Spyros Capralos, also an Olympian in swimming. Then ACG President (now Chancellor) John S. Bailey spoke of the College’s close ties with the Olympic move - ment and ideals and said that ACG places great emphasis on athletics because they are an integral part of a quality education. “We are proud to have contributed to the Olympic effort mounted by Athens in 2004,” Bailey said, adding that the participation in that effort of more than 1,000 members of the wider College community remains a source of pride to this day. Bailey also praised the HOA for its support for quality education for its members. HOA President George Andreadis expressed satisfaction at his organization’s cooperation with The American Col - lege of Greece, an institution with a long history of service to Greek society. From Top: Both speakers praised the donors for their support for A group photo of the Olympians who were honored athletes and education and expressed hope they would with commemorative gifts by the College. find more imitators. (Left to Right) Chancellor John S. Bailey, Evangelos Marinakis, Olympic gold medallist Sophia Bekatorou and ACG Ex - Efthymios Bouloutas, and George Andreadis. ecutive Vice President Nicholas Jiavaras were the evening’s Mayor Panayiotis Fasoulas of Piraeus receives a commemorative moderators. o gift from Chancellor Bailey.

The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 19 News Student Governments Convene in Rome and ACG IsThere

Deree student leaders at the student be smooth if the two entities operate in a goverment conference in Rome. complementary way. Members of other college student gov - tions on different aspects of student life. ernments discussed various issues that Manos Moschopoulos, the ACG Student arise in their cooperation with their re - Government president, spoke about the spective administrations. College to the delegates and referred to The conference also provided a forum ACG’s infrastructure, demographic data for the advisors of the participating student and accreditation, answering questions governments to discuss their own issues. from other students. In this context, ACG Director of Student Af - ACG’s main contribution to the event fairs Chris Koutras detailed his role as a liai - was the presentation of the Student Emer - son between the students and the ACG gency Response Force, a unique student administration. organization under the auspices of the Of - In his opening remarks, Franco Pavon - fice of Student Affairs, which trains stu - cello, JCU-Bologna president, described The ACG Student Government (SG), the dents in the use of fire-fighting equipment, student governments as advocates, organ - representative body of the College’s un - first aid and other emergency procedures izers, controllers and overall institutional dergraduate students, participated in the and offers its services on campus when memory, and pledged to open his campus’ International Student Government Confer - necessary. doors to student leaders again in the near ence which was organized by John Cabot The host university’s students were also future. o University in Rome. Deree student leaders interested in finding out more about joined their counterparts from Johns Hop - Deree’s very successful Debating Club kins University Bologna, the American Uni - and how they could set up their own versity of Rome, and Touros College in competitive debating teams. The SG Berlin for a three-day conference that in - members also illustrated how coopera - cluded seminars, workshops and presenta - tion with the College administration can

Deree Earns New Debating Distinctions

Matt Simunec ( left) with ed the semi-finals of theYeditepe Open in Manos Moschopoulos in Belgrade. and a team composed of Mos- chopoulos and Eirini Damianaki repre - the academic debate format which is sented Greece in the ESU European modeled after the British parliamentary Parliament Intervarsity tournament held process, the Deree team, comprising at the University of Strathclyde, in Glas - Manos Moschopoulos and Matt Simunec, gow, on February 1, 2008, making it to the was drawn in the Closing Government final and leaving debating powerhouses side backing a plan to bring about a EU such as the universities of Cambridge, Lei - and NATO cooperation to protect Euro - den and Cardiff out of contention. The pean borders. tournament, organized to commemorate Students from Ireland, England, Wales, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the , Croatia, Slovenia and the Czech Treaty of Rome, which gave birth to the Republic competed in the event. The European Union, was eventually won by A two-man Deree College team won the Open was one of many events organized Scotland. Belgrade Open debating tournament by faculties of the University of Belgrade, This year Deree College will be repre - that took place in the Serbian capital ear - which has recently organized debating sented at tournaments across the conti - lier this year. Deree captured the trophy workshops with the support of the US nent, including the University of against teams representing the Universi - Embassy in Serbia. Cambridge Intervarsity, the World Uni - ties of Newcastle and Bucharest in the This wasn’t the only achievement for versities Debating Championships in Grand Final held in the Serbian National the Deree Debating Club this year. Cork, Ireland, and the European Champi - Assembly. In an exciting round, following Moschopoulos and Simunec also reach- onships in Newcastle, England. o

20 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 News Firefighting Drill atThe American College of Greece

On September 18, 2008 high ranking offi - cers of the Hellenic Fire Department based in the region visited the College for a seminar on fire prevention and suppression addressed to ACG stu - dents, administration and staff. The sem - inar, which included a lecture as well as practical exercises, took place at the Pierce College Theater and outdoors at the Aghia Paraskevi campus. “Existing school measures are very good, but one must also know how to use them calmly and without fear,” said Fire Department representatives after the drill. The presentation also stressed the importance of civilians’ contribution to the protection of the environment from fire. During a fire drill both students and staff had the opportunity to practice ex - tinguishing a fire. Student Giannis Kar - thousands of pine trees on the campus it - vounas, who is captain of the Student self. During the summer fire season, Emergency Response Force (S.E.R.F.) team members of the SERF team and members and was participating in such a drill at the of the College staff regularly patrol the College for the second time, noted that campus to spot any fire outbreak. In the the previous seminar had been purely past, these patrols have prevented sev - theoretical. “I am happy that this year’s eral minor emergencies from developing training also included actual hands-on into major catastrophes. o practice,” he added, thanking both the College and the Fire Department for the valuable experience. Officers of the Hellenic Fire Department Such exercises are useful for the Col - demonstrate fire suppression methods (top) lege because of its proximity to the forest and pose with members of the College of Mt. Hymettus and the existence of community who attended the seminar.

ACGTakes Steps to Prevent Fires

Over the past several years, The Ameri - ing system that draws on the College’s fashion. They also act as deterrence to can College of Greece has taken major own water resources – including its own would-be arsonists. steps to protect its campus and the sur - well and the thousands of tons of water The College regularly clears underbrush rounding forest of Mt. Hymettus from in the Olympic-size swimming pool – in the forested part of the campus to make fire. has been set up. The system is capable it harder for fires to start and to minimize The College also has established chan - of providing a full defense against any the strength and speed of a fire if one does nels of cooperation and communication fire on campus, which is heavily fore- start. with municipal authorities, the fire de - sted. Fire extinguishers are also located In recent months, the head of the 4th partment, the police department, the throughout the campus, giving the Col - Athens Fire Brigade Division, the mayor of Demokritos scientific research center and lege the ability to fight localized fire Aghia Paraskevi, and the Commander of the nearby Eastern Mediterranean Military outbreaks. the Eastern Mediterranean Military Com - Command for better co-ordination of ac - A corps of volunteers and staff is mobi - mand have praised the College’s contribu - tions during a fire emergency on the west - lized for round-the-clock fire-watch shifts tion to the prevention and suppression of ern slope of this beautiful mountain, in times when the danger of forest fires is fires in and around the College. which is essential to the well-being of the heightened.They, along with the College’s During the catastrophic late-summer Greater Athens area. professional security personnel, are able to fires of 2007, College personnel used Col - Here are some of the measures: provide early warning during forest-fire lege equipment in putting out two fires An extensive, campus-wide firefight - season, and alert the authorities in a timely just off the campus. o

The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 21 News Parliament President, Japanese EnvoyVisit ACG

bers of the ACG faculty and administra - tion, the first secretary of the embassy, To - motaka Yoshimura, and George Spanos of the Greek Association of Koryu Bugei. The opening also featured examples of the famous Ikebana flower arrangements created by the Greek chapter of the Ohara School of Japan, which is headed by Ms. Hara Papadopoulou. Ambassador Kitamura, in his remarks, thanked the College for staging the exhi - bition and added that such events con - tribute to a better understanding of the rich Japanese culture among young peo - ple in Greece. o Art critic and historian Athina Schina pre - one organized by the American College, sented works of the distinguished Greek and praised the students for their ability painter Achileas Droungas during a gath - to carry on a high-level discussion on art, ering at the Special Collections Room of history and mythology. the John S. Bailey Library last May. Japanese ceramics exhibit The presentation, which was backed by The Japanese Ambassador to Greece, a documentary about Droungas’ life and Takanori Kitamura , visited the College on work by Babis Plaitakis, attracted a spe - November 14 to inaugurate an exhibition cial guest: Hellenic Parliament President of ceramics from the Meiji period, organ - Dimitris Sioufas came to the College to ized at the Special Collections Room. The admire Schinas’ lecture and Droungas’ Ambassador toured the exhibition along work. Schina is the curator of the Hellenic with ACG President David G. Horner and Parliament’s large art collection. Executive Director of Special Collections Top, Deree and Pierce students with Deree College students from the class Dr. Yannis Fikas. President Horner, Amb. Kitamura and of Professor Efi Halivopoulou attended The ceramics on exhibit are part of the Executive Director Fikas at the Japanese the presentation and took part in a dis - collection of Sophocles Karayannis. ceramics exhibition. Above, Parliament President Dimitris Sioufas at the Special cussion with the artist and the art critic. Students from Deree and Pierce Col - After the presentation, Sioufas said that Collections room during the Droungas art leges joined other guests at the opening. presentation by art critic and historian he was impressed by such events as the Among them were Mr. Karayannis, mem - Athina Schina. The Continuity of Greek Literature

Last June’s thirteenth annual Kimon Friar ern , literature, criticism came to Greece in 1946 and embarked on Lecture was an exploration of the continu - and culture, as well as literary theory and a long career as a translator that reached its ities (and discontinuities) of Greek literature comparative literature. peak in 1958 with the publication in Eng - from ancient times to the present. Profes - During his lecture, Lambropoulos lish of Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Odyssey: A sor Vassilios Lambropoulos, this year’s lec - showed that the sense of tragedy, which Modern Sequel . Subsequent translations of turer, held his audience captive as he first entered literature in early Greek writ - Elytis, Ritsos, Sinopoulos and scores of explored his topic,“Reflections on Tragedy ings, continues to connect even post-mod - other Greek poets, together with essays in Greek Post-Modern Fiction,” by using ex - ern Greek writers with their ancestors. His and articles on a variety of topics, helped amples from famous as well as relatively approach is reflected in his own works: stir worldwide interest in modern Greek obscure – or even unpublished – works by Lambropoulos is currently writing a book culture. modern Greek authors. on the notion of hubris in modern theater. Numerous honors and awards in Greece Dr. Lambropoulos is eminently qualified The Kimon Friar Lecture series in Modern and the US recognized Friar’s contributions for the task: he is a lifelong student of mod - Greek Art and Letters was established in to the world of letters. He died on May 25, ern Greek literature and has been C.P. honor of Kimon Friar, one of the pre-emi - 1993, leaving a significant part of his pa - Cavafy professor of Modern Greek at the nent Greek-American personalities of the pers to The American College of Greece, in University of Michigan since 1999, teach - 20th century. Born in Asia Minor in 1911, whose collection they are preserved today. ing at the university’s Departments of Clas - Friar was taken to the United States at an Professor Hariclea Zengos of Deree Col - sical Studies and Comparative Literature. early age, and made his mark as a poet, an - lege’s English department prefaced this His teaching work includes courses in mod - thologist, editor and teacher. Friar first year’s Kimon Friar Lecture. o

22 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 News BusinessWeek 2008Tackles Sustainability

Last spring’s Business Week 2008 focused on the topic:“Sustainability Today is Busi - ness Tomorrow.” Sustainability is an issue that has begun to dominate public debate since the mid - dle of this decade, as environmental problems begin to accumulate and the environment’s ability to sustain human activity has come into question. Sustain - ability is defined as the design and imple - mentation of human activity with a long-term perspective and is applicable to a variety of domains, including economic development, food production, energy and social organization. The Business Week annual forum is or - ganized by the business academic societies of The American College of Greece, and its purpose is to bring professionals and reasearchers from industry and academia in contact with students of business disci - plines to address emerging practices in the business world. Sustainability – along with corporate so - cial responsibility – is, today, one of the strongest trends in business internation - ally. The four-day proceedings were split be - tween the Aghia Paraskevi and Downtown campuses, with speakers from both indus - try and academia presenting a range of emerging issues and prevailing business practices. The speakers at Business Week 2008 were Notis Mitarachi (DC’95), Director of Research, Fidelity Investments Interna - tional, UK; Nikos Avlonas, General Director, Centre for Sustainability and Excellence; Alexis Komselis, Special Projects Supervi - sor, DRM Stylianou; Rudolf Hänssler, for - mer Executive Director of the Office of Operations of The American College of lieros, After-Sales Manager, BMW Hellas; Greece; Dr. Pavlos Dimitratos, Professor of George Drakopoulos, General Manager, International Business, Athens University Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises; of Economics and Business; George Saliaris Rena Koumantou, Vice Chairman, Greek Fasseas, Managing Director, OgilvyOne Network for Corporate Social Responsibil - Worldwide, Athens; Pantelis Vogiatzis, Proj - ity; Michael Vastardis, General Manager of ect Manager, Institutions and Regulations, Park Hotel, Athens, and Dr. Dorothy Racho - Endesa Hellas SA; Mariza Melliou, Head of vides, former research fellow at the Digital Methodology Standardization and Train - World Research Centre of the University of ing Subdivision, Internal Audit, National Surrey, UK. Bank of Greece; Dr. Thanos Stubos, Head The opening remarks were delivered by of the Environmental Research Laboratory Professor Lila Mordochae, associate dean at the NCSR Demokritos; Isidoros Tiano, of the School of Business Administration at owner of F.L. Clover; George Vassilaras, Op - From the top: Pantelis Vogiatzis, of Endessa Deree College. Hellas, with students and faculty after his erations and Quality Director, FoodService Professor Evgenia (Jenny) Vagianou, lecture; a view of the audience at the and Entertainment Division, Vivartia SA; who teaches Information Technology at Downtown campus; Notis Mitarachi of Dimitrios Michopoulos, Corporate Affairs Deree College, coordinated Business Fidelity Investments in London, Director, Vodafone Greece; John Kava - Week 2008. o who led the roster of speakers.

The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 23 Athletics 4 Countries, 8 Schools, 600 Athletes

Top: Athletes from the Lebanese American University (left) and the American University of Cairo (right). Left: The Deree soccer team (in blue) plays against the American University of Sharjah.

women finished second in volleyball and basketball. At the awards ceremony, schools were presented team trophies and individual medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. A spe - cial presentation was made in the 1st In - ternational Hall of Fame category. Two students from each school were recog - nized for their athletic excellence and sportsmanship.

The hall-of-famers were: Omar Banakat and Salma Kassem Let the games begin! No, this was not the buffet of Greek specialties. (American University in Cairo) Olympics, but rather the 2nd International As usual, the Deree and Junior College Sports Festival, hosted by The American teams fared well in competition. The Jun - Ramo Osman and Shada Nasr College of Greece at its Aghia Paraskevi ior College basketball team took first (American University of Beirut) campus last March 20-22. place in an exciting final against the Tarek Mahmoud and Dima Smaira Over 600 student athletes came to - Lebanese American University that (Lebanese American University-Beirut) gether to compete in men’s and women’s ended 101- 93. basketball, volleyball, soccer, tennis, table After going undefeated in qualifying Rachad Mikati and Chrystel Jalkh tennis and swimming. These young men soccer competition, the Deree team lost a (Lebanese American University-Byblos) and women came from Egypt, Lebanon, heartbreaker to the American University of Fares Bakir and Magda Samouil the United Arab Emirates and Greece, and Sharjah, 1-0. Although the team was dis - (American College of Thessaloniki) represented eight international educa - traught after the game, the players took Hani Hlayhel and Rajaa Chatah tional institutions. solace in the complimentary comments (University of Balamand) In addition to the intense competition from other schools on their superb play on display in over 60 team games and 49 throughout the festival. Mohammed Ismail and individual matches, students had a chance There was also a second-place finish Reem Ghaleb Khalayli to mix socially at the Festival Greek Night from the Deree men’s volleyball team, (American University of Sharjah) activities. There, participants were treated which came within a point of taking the Christina Vasiliadou and to a super performance by the Deree Ori - championship in the final set against the Antonis Antonopoulos ental Dance class, in addition to the rich American University of Beirut. Deree (The American College of Greece) o

24 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 Athletics Swimming and Water PoloTeams Swim and water polo teams are basic to most aquatics programs. Now these exciting and demanding sports have become part of the Deree College intercollegiate athletic program. Under the watchful eye of coachTroy Marthinsen, College swim - mers are put through a rigorous two-hour workout, twice a week for each team. Students are learning techniques, skills and strate - gies that coach Marthinsen has taught for many years as an assis - tant head coach at the University of Alabama. The College swim and water polo teams have an excellent op - portunity to capitalize on the ACG’s world class aquatics facilities. The swimmers’ goals are to improve individually while enjoying the team experience. o Wellness Experience 2008

Did you know that laughter stimulates the Nutrition. The several healthy-eating immune system and makes the heart stations were a favorite not only for the stronger? Perhaps you are interested in valuable information that was available, finding out more about how to better cope but also for the health foods and drinks with migraines or stress headaches. Or that were handed out. maybe you are curious about the benefits Safety. With the help of the Aghia of using natural products and alternative Paraskevi police, students learned about therapies. the dangers of drinking and driving. An - Members of the Deree College commu - other station demonstrated first aid and nity had the chance to speak to profes - CPR techniques. sionals in the fields of healthcare, nutrition, Environment. The Wellness Experience beauty, fitness, environment, safety and also covered the environment in which we natural products at the Wellness Experi - live and work. The documentary Planet ence organized in May by the Wellness Earth was shown and handouts on com - Center under the direction of Christina posting and forest fires were distributed. Drakonakis.The exhibition featured 29 sta - Fitness. Physical education class de- tions where exhibitors provided free health monstrations showed the numerous av - and beauty check-ups and advice, product enues available to students who want to demonstrations, informative handouts and exercise. Athletic wear was also on display free samples of their products. Below is a at the fitness booth. list of the stations that participants could Beauty – skin-type diagnoses and ap - visit. propriate products for different skin types Natural Products. Visitors to this section were indicated. Free skin care samples learned how to recognize certified quality were handed out to visitors. products, including organic foods. They Visitors walked away armed with bags were also able to taste organic honeys and full of free samples, information leaflets received free samples of natural skin care and the knowledge that wellness encom - products. passes a wide range of disciplines all in - Health. Two computerized question - teracting with one another and all naires helped visitors determine their level affecting how we experience life. Wellness of health, while people who suffer from is a lifestyle choice we make each time we headaches had access to information that sit down to eat, exercise and choose the might be relevant to their condition. environment in which we live, work and Booths addressing the issues of stress, sub - play. Wellness is also influenced by the stance abuse, learning disabilities, and choices we make about destructive habits AIDS drew many participants. There were and how we deal with challenges in life. Part of the message of the Wellness also health screening booths that tested Healthy lifestyles can be practiced by any - Experience is the increase awareness about hearing, blood pressure, blood cholesterol one who decides to make the commit - alcohol (top), tobacco (above), and other and blood sugar. ment. o substance abuse.

The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 25 Athletics Exercise Classes Body Pump Class

for Faculty and Staff For those of you who think that lifting weights is for big, muscular men, ask women taking Andro - machi Katsafadou’s Body Pump class. Three times a week, participants in the class ex - perience a total body workout, going through a series of exercises with light weights. A pleasant musical backdrop facilitates the workout by help - ing to create an environment different from the normal clanking of weights associated with weight-lifting. By following the basic exercise principle of over - load, participants increase bone density, improve posture, firm and strengthen muscles, and en - hance cardiovascular fitness.

The health of an organization’s workforce is a paramount consideration for deci - sion-makers. Workers who exercise regularly benefit in terms of reduced stress, increased productivity and enhanced energy. With this in mind, the Office of Athletics offers ACG faculty and staff an oppor - tunity to participate in credit and non-credit physical education classes. The courses run the gamut of physical requirements, ranging from low-intensity yoga to high-intensity cardio hip hop. The Office of Athletics has also initiated a new exercise class called Abs, Glutes and Legs for faculty and staff.The class operates separately from the office’s other offerings in that it is exclusively for faculty and staff and takes place during non- working hours.These two characteristics have been important motivating factors in increasing faculty and staff participation. The Office of Athletics welcomes their participation because it contributes not only to their well-being, but also to the well-being of the College.

Fun in the Sun

July 25 was the kind of beautiful summer But it was not the balmy weather that sport to determine winners in the men’s day that many people take advantage of attracted these students to Schinias beach. and co-ed competitions. In between to enjoy the beach. Things were no dif - It was the ever popular annual intramural matches, the exhausted players had the ferent for thirty-two Deree students on beach volleyball tournament. For five chance to rejuvenate themselves with a that day. hours students played the demanding dip in the refreshing waters of the Aegean.

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From Networking to Working by Maria Laiou*

What is the best way to land a good job? Diligent networking, most experts will tell you.

Networking: the new, old way to get a tion of this would be that networking is the their active network or give them an in - job. Anyone you ask who is in the know use of this group or system to achieve a de - sight they will find useful. Remember: will tell you that, for over a decade now, sired result. In our case, that would be se - one hand washes the other. Offer support networking has been considered the best curing a new position. But how do you to gain support. way to get ahead in your career. Human identify who is part of your group or sys - resources professionals refer to network - tem of interconnected or cooperating in - The following groups of individuals could ing as the best way to make your career dividuals? prove valuable members of your network: grow. Networking will get you the buzz The fact is, everyone you have ever met on new job offers. Networking will help is part of your network. Your active net - Business associates. Just because you you make the right acquaintances. Net - work comprises any contact that could have left one place of employment for an - working will open doors that otherwise lead you to an intriguing job opening, a other doesn’t mean you can’t maintain would remain closed – or even unknown. way to advance your career, or even other your contacts; stay in touch to stay in - valuable contacts. Don’t forget, though, formed about what is moving in the mar - “Network” is today’s job-seekers’ mantra. you are also part of your contacts’ net - ket. works. To make your network stronger, According to Webster’s Dictionary , a net - you must be a valuable member of your Professional associations . Don’t join just work, as applied to human beings, is a contacts’ networks, too, by offering your to have your name show up on the ros - group or system of interconnected or co - help whenever they need it: recommend ter; actively participate to make other operating individuals. A good interpreta - someone you know they could add to members – who are also professionals in

28 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 your field, and as such, possibly future Fellow Alumni . High school or college regarding your career goals and current colleagues, employers or even employees friends from the past are present and fu - employment status. – notice you. ture colleagues. There are over 33,000 alumni of The American College of Networking will get you working if you Family and friends. This group can open Greece, quite a network in itself.  build your network doors you never thought possible. They  keep the people in your network up - know you well and are willing to help you College Career Office . Just think, its net - dated on your career progress out. But be careful! Having them in your work is almost entirely staffed by human  stay actively involved with your net - active network doesn’t mean you can de - resources officers that want to hire some - work. mand a position from them based on one. Is there a better network to be part your relationship. They can help you of when looking for a job? And remember: every time you interact make the right contact, forward your re - To become part of the ACG Office of with members of your network, you could sume to the right person, or tip you off Career Services network is easy: contact be interviewing for a job. o about a great opportunity they’ve heard us to develop a targeted resume, sign up about, but you will have to land the job for Placement Services, and make a point *Ms. Laiou, is Coordinator of Career Events on your own merits. Always keep your of participating in the largest annual net - at the ACG Office of Career Services friends and family up to date on your ca - working event for Deree College seniors reer aspirations and goals. and alumni, the Deree College Career For more information and details on how Forum. to participate in ACG career networking Professors/Instructors . Whether past or Once you have registered for place - events and placement programs, contact present, your professors were – and in ment and networking opportunities, re - the Office of Career Services at 210 600 most cases probably still are – active pro - member to be an active member of the 9800, ext 1311, 1313 and 1314, from 8:00 to fessionals in the field in which you are in - network and maintain contact with the 17:30, Monday through Friday, or by e-mail terested in establishing a career. Office of Career Services, updating them at [email protected]

The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 29 Culture Culture Shone Again at ACG in 2008

For years, the American College of Greece has been one of the brightest spots in the cultural life of Athens. Arguably, no other venue in the Greek capital, and most likely in all of Greece, stages the quantity and variety of quality events seen at the Col - lege.The year that is about to expire, 2008, was no different. Concerts, theater, musi - cals, opera, movies, and book presenta - tions made for a lively series. Just as important as performances by well-established artists, some of them ACG alumni, were several performances by Deree College students and faculty, which turned out to be clear demonstra - tions of the quality of cultural talent that exists within the College itself. Perfomances like Laughing Through Our Tears , a compilation of excerpts from con - temporary Broadway musicals performed by the musical theatre performance class under the direction of faculty members Efi Minakoulis and Cindi Trent; Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth , performed by students under the direction of faculty member actor/director Philippos Sofi - anos; or Chryssothemis , a musical written and composed by Olga Emmanuel with choreography by CindiTrent, surprised au - diences with the skill and professionalism of ACG’s own artists. They complemented top notch per - formances by musicians like Dimitris Toufexis,Tatiana Papageorgiou and Chris - tine Tokatlian, all members of the Deree faculty, actors Spyros Fokas and Mary Vi - dali, and dozens of others, whose talents made for an interesting cultural year. o

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Opposite page, from top: Christine Tokatlian and Titos Gouvelis present a piano duo concert; Natalia Miroshnikova performs with her son Christopher Miroshnikov; a scene from Laughing Through Our Tears . This page from top: a scene from Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth ; Kinitiras Chorotheama perfoms Maria Salliari’s Tziz ! Neoplasmatic Hysterias ; Pierce alumna Mary Vidali with Spyros Fokas in Lorca’s Dona Rosita .

The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 31 Culture AYoungWoman’s Story S ung

Far left, a scene from the performance. Left, Olga Emmanuel basks in the audience’s applause.

Olga Emmanuel had been nursing a name she had given randomly to a little pressed everyone with her non-amplified nearly secret passion for music and the girl she wrote a song for in 1994, while the voice. theater. Some of her colleagues had sus - last song was based on a poem she had The direction, choreography and stage pected something, given her regular written as far back as 1969. “Two hearts and light design were the work of CindiTrent, membership in the College’s choir or her electrified in a train” was part of a poetry who has been part of the Deree dance pro - dedication to her studies as an under - collection published by her uncle, Caesar gram for more than twenty years. Nikos San - graduate at Deree College. But no one Emmanuel, in 1929. ios, who did the orchestration for all songs, had actual proof of her commitment – let The four lead singers (Rosa Poulimenou, and sang both“mother” and“son” in the star - alone her talent – until last May when her Vangelis Maniatis, Sofia Kapetanakou , tling rap “I’m fed up,” monitored the sound, bittersweet musical Chryssothemis was and Vangelis Angelakis), all professionals and played live between songs during scene performed at the Pierce College Theater. of the classical repertoire, sang and acted changes. That same evening, Emmanuel presented admirably. Myrto Beri as young Chrys - The video clips were filmed and edited for the first time the CD with the play’s sothemis gave sweet performance, while by Professor Nikos Falagas and students music. her sister Nefeli appeared as a convincing Alexis Kypridimos, Barbara Manana, Elias The show’s songs told the story of a flower girl in “Monastiraki.” Deree College Spyrakis and Olga Stefanidou, of his CN young woman, Chryssothemis, following graduates Anthy Vlachogianni, Danae 4645 class. her on her journey from childhood to ado - Karakosta and Victoria Colsusian, and stu - Emmanuel is set to retire from ACG in lescence to adulthood. Emmanuel said dents Elena Moschaki, Manos Petro- January 2009 to devote her time and ener - that the story had been built around pouleas and Michelle Rush participated as gies to composing and writing. In addition songs she had written over a period of extras along with Theodoros Mandazelis to music, she has written three books, po - more than twenty years, and had been in - and Stefanos Economou, students of the etry and a libretto for an opera. spired by events similar to those por - Veaki School of Drama. Maria Kokka of the Chryssothemis was distributed to record trayed on stage. Chryssothemis was the ACG choir also participated and im - stores by Music Post in October. o US band brings jazz sounds to campus

Twenty-three young American musicians aged between 19 and 25, all members of the Gettysburg College Jazz Ensemble, performed jazz classics on the College lawn on a balmy afternoon last May. They were led by music professor Buzz Jones, who founded the band over 25 years ago, and who still leads it as it tours frequently in the United States and Europe. Many of the orchestra members do not even study music.They join this unique ensemble out of sheer passion for the big band jazz sound. Such attachment to music on the part of non-music majors is a characteristic “byproduct” of a liberal arts education at an institution such as Pennsylvania’s Gettysburg College, according to Jones. The band performed pieces by Duke Ellington, David Mann, Lester Young, Fats Waller, Dave Brubeck and other greats. The audience made up of students, faculty and staff of The Amer - ican College of Greece duly appreciated the midday concert, a wel - The Gettysburg College Jazz Ensemble performs at ACG. come diversion in an ordinary working afternoon. o

32 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 Faculty Faculty notes

Eugene Ralph Aldous at the Faculty Research Seminar, held at Helsinki and Stockholm in October. ACG Professor II , Management the American College of Greece, February business students and alumni also partic - Attended , by invitation, the 20th anniver - 25 , 2008. ipated in the event. Students have been sary of the Oxford RoundTable held atThe Attended the international conference participating in the event for five years Queen’s College, Oxford, England in Au - organized by the Hellenic Sociological So - running. gust 2008 .The RoundTable discussions fo - ciety and the Sociology Department of cused on trade liberalization and its Panteion University, entitled“The contem - Panos Avramidis, Ph.D. consequences for human rights. He served porary relevance of Max Weber’s work” Visiting Professor I, The Graduate School as discussion leader for the papers “Fairer and held in Athens, May 30-31, 2008. Co-authored the paper “Corporate Social Trade and the Human Right to Develop - Responsibility: Attributions, Loyalty, and ment” and “Media and Technology: To - Nikolaos A. Antivachis, Ph.D. the Mediating Role of Trust,” published in ward a Monoculture.” Adjunct Professor, Management the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Co-authored the paper “KM: Beyond the Science (Impact Factor 2007: 1.18). The Ioannis Anastassakis Information-Processing Paradigm,” pre - paper co-authors were Deree ACG faculty Instructor, Music sented at the 3rd National Conference of member Pavlos Vlachos, Ph.D., Argiris Published, in English, the book The Art of the Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies, Tsamakos and Adam Vrechopoulos, Ph.D., Tremolo , Mel Bay Publications, 2008. This held in Piraeus, 2007, May 2007.The paper of Athens University of Economics and comprehensive dissertation presents an was co-authored by V. Angelis and pub - Business. exhaustive analysis of the different tre- lished in the conference proceedings. Presented the paper“Migration in Struc - molo patterns and examines and outlines Co-authored the paper“KM: MovingTo - tural Credit Rating Models” at the 8th An - the diverse variations of the tremolo tech - wards a People-Centered Philosophy and nual Meeting of the European Network of nique as evidenced in the evolution of the Practice,” presented at the 3rd National Business and Industrial Statistics, hosted Classical and Flamenco guitar. Conference of the Hellenic Society for Sys - by the Athens University of Economics and Directed and organized the 1st Greek temic Studies, held in Piraeus, May 2007. Business, September 22-24, 2008. Guitar Power Electric Guitar Festival of The paper was co-authored by V. Angelis Lariss, held at the Art Stage Theater in and published in the conference proceed - Andreas Boukas , May 10-11, 2008 . ings. Professor III, Mathematics Directed and organized the 1st Athens Co-authored the paper“Knowledge and Co-authored the paper “Fock Representa - Electric Guitar Festival , at the Mantzaros Technology: Organizational Inderdepen - tion of the Renormalized Higher Powers of Conservatory, March 1-2, 2008. dencies and Development,” presented at White Noise and the Centerless Virasoro Published the article “Greek Axe Attacks, the 3rd National Conference of the Hel - (or Witt)—Zamolodchikov—w_∞ *-Lie Al - Part 1 ” in the Greek magazine Rock Hard , lenic Society for Systemic Studies , held in gebra ,” published in the Journal of Physics vol. 2, issue 3, 2008. Piraeus , May 2007. The paper was co-au - A: Mathematical and Theoretical , volume Published the article“Greek Axe Attacks, thored by G. Konstantas and V. Angelis and 41, (2008). The paper co-author was Luigi Part 2 ”in Rock Hard , vol.2, issue 4, 2008. published in the conference proceedings. Accardi. Published the article“Greek Axe Attacks, Co-authored the paper “BPR in Public Published the paper “Renormalized Part 3 ” in Rock Hard , vol.2, issue 5, 2008. Organizations or Cultural Transformation: Powers of Quantum White Noise” in the Made the presentation“Elaborate Paths Two Sides of the Same Coin,” presented at Bulgarian Journal of Physics , volume 35, of Continuous Instrumental Improvement the 4th National Conference of the Hel - 2007. The paper was published as part of for the Resolute Electric Guitarist ”at the 1st lenic Society for Systemic Studies, held in the proceedings of the VII International Athens Electric Guitar Festival, at the , Greece, May 2008. The paper Workshop“LieTheory and its Applications Mantzaros Conservatory, March1-2, 2008. was co-authored by G. Konstantas and V. in Physics,” integrated into the II Alexander Made the presentation “Contemporary Angelis and published in the conference Von Humboldt Foundation Workshop Electric Guitar:The Evolution of Art vs .Tech - proceedings. “Quantum Systems Related to Non-com - nique ” at the 1st Greek Guitar Power Elec - Was elected General Secretary of the mutative Geometries, Their Symmetries tric Guitar Festival of Larissa , held at the Art Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies, May and Evolution Equations,” held in Varna, Stage Theater, Larissa, May 10-11, 2008. 2008. Bulgaria, June 18-24, 2008. Attended the “Musikmesse 2008” con - Gave the talk “The *-Lie Algebra of the ference, held in Frankfurt, Germany, Harry Athanassopoulos Renormalized Higher Powers of White March, 2008. Adjunct Preceptor, Management, Noise (RHPWN)” at the 11th Workshop: Attended the“Muzart 2008 ” conference, International Business and Non-Commutative Harmonic Analysis held in Athens, April, 2008. Computer Information Services with Applications to Probability, held in Was re-elected International Associate Di - Bedlewo, Poland, August 17-23, 2008. The Evagelia Andreadou -Samara rector of the Armed Forces Communica - conference was co-sponsored by the Pol - Preceptor, Sociology tions and Electronics Association for ish Ministry of Science and Higher Educa - Presented the paper “Socioeconomic De - 2008-2009. tion, the Banach Center (Institute of terminants of Common Mental Disorders ,” Participated in the annual AFCEA annual Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sci - based on her research leading to a Ph.D ., symposium,TechNet-Europe 2007, held in ences), the Institute of Mathematics of the

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University of Wrocław, the Institute of Iliana Christodoulou-Varotsi, Ph.D. Spyros Gangas, Ph.D . Mathematics and Computer Science of Adjunct Professor, Business Law Professor I, Sociology the Wrocław University of Technology, Published , in English , the book Maritime Published, in Greek, the chapter “Value- and the Institute of Theoretical Physics Safety Law and Policies of the European Networks: The Theoretical Challenge of a and Astrophysics of the University of Union and the United States of America: An - Political Demand for the Dialectical Con - Gdańsk. tagonism or Synergy? Published by Spri- struction of Concepts in Social Theory” in nger, Heidelberg and New York, 2008. The the book Theory, Values and Critique: A Trib - Elias Camouzis, Ph.D. book contains a foreword by H.E. Mr ute to Kosmas Psychopedis , edited by Professor I, Mathematics Efthimios Mitropoulos, Secretary-General Manolis Angelidis, Stephanos Dimitriou and Natural Sciences of the International Maritime Organization. and Aliki Lavranou , Polis Publishers, Made the presentation“Global Behavior of Co-authored the book Maritime Work Athens, 2008. a System of Rational Equations” at the 14th Law Fundamentals: Reponsible Shipowners, International Conference of Difference Reliable Seafarers , published by Springer, Despina Gavrili-Alexandris Equations and Applications, held at Bahce - Heidelberg and NewYork, 2008.The book, Adjunct Preceptor, Marketing sehir University in Istanbul, July 21-25, co-authored by Dmitry A. Pentsov, re - Attended the 6th SETE conference on 2008. ceived a positive review from Malgorzata “Tourism and Development ,” held in Chaired a session at the 14th Interna - Nesterowicz in the prestigious Journal of Athens, October 29 -30, 2007. tional Conference of Difference Equations Maritime Law and Commerce , volume 39, Attended the annual XENIA conference and Applications. issue 3, July 2008. on “Greek Gastronomy as an element of Published the following papers in the Republished the article “Recent Devel - Cultural Legacy and Tourism Develop - Journal of Difference Equations and Appli - opments in the EC Legal Framework on ment ,”held in Athens, November 23, 2007. cations : Ship-Source Pollution:The Ambivalence of Attended the annual SEV conference on “On Second-Order Rational Difference the EC’s Penal Approach” in the French “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Mod - Equations I,” in volume 14, 2008.The paper Yearbook of Maritime and Oceanic Law (An - ern World”, held in Athens , January 28, was co-authored by Amal Amleh and nuaire de Droit Maritime et Océanique ) of 2008. Bill Gates was the keynote speaker. Gerasimos Ladas. the Université de Nantes , France, Volume Attended the 4th HAPCO Conference on “On Second-Order Rational Difference XXVI , 2008. “Environment, Synergies and Crisis Man - Equations II,” in volume 14, 2008.The paper Made the presentation“A Maritime Com - agement in Congress Tourism ,” held in was co-authored by Amal Amleh and petition Reading of Regulation 1408/71/EC Athens, February 28 - 29, 2008. Gerasimos Ladas. on the Coordination of Social Security Sys - Made the presentation “Conceptualiz - “Global Convergence on Periodically tems in the European Union: Is the Current ing Relationship Marketing in the Context Forced Rational Equations,” in volume 14, Regime Out of Date?” at the 5th European of the Tourism Industry ,” at the Faculty Re - 2008. Colloquium on Maritime Law Research or - search Seminar, held at the American Col - “On Third-Order Rational Difference ganized by the Athens University Faculty of lege of Greece on March 19, 2008. The Equations I,” in volume 14, 2008.The paper Law and the Scandinavian Institute of Mar - presentation was based on a paper co-au - was co-authored by Gerasimos Ladas. itime Law and held at the Old Parliament, thored with Dr. Sofia Daskos and pub - “On Third-Order Rational Difference Athens, May 29-30, 2008. lished by ATINER in 2007. Equations II,” in volume 14, 2008.The paper Organized, in her capacity as national Co-authored , in English , the chapter was co-authored by Gerasimos Ladas. expert for Cyprus for the EU-funded proj - “Conceptualizing Relationship Marketing Co-authored the paper “A Non-Linear ect Training and Reporting on European in the Context of the Tourism Industry” in System of difference Equations Linking Social Security, a seminar intended for the the book Issues on Tourism Policy, pub - Mosquitoes, Habitats and Community In - stakeholders involved in the application of lished by ATINER in 2007.The chapater co- terventions” in Communications of Applied Regulation 1408/71/EC on the coordina - author was Dr. Sofia Daskos. Nonlinear Analysis , volume 15. The co-au - tion of social security systems in the Euro - thors were Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander, pean Union. The seminar was held in Effie Halivopoulou Richard Levins, Edward Grove, Gerasimos Nicosia, Cyprus, July 7, 2008. Adjunct Preceptor, Visual Arts Ladas and Michaela Predescu. Presented a solo exhibition of painting Co-authored the book Dynamics of Dimitris Doulos, Ph.D . and video entitled “Entropy in Transit” at Third-Order Rational Difference Equations: Professor II, Economics the ArtBeat Gallery in Brussels, September With Open Problems and Conjectures , Co-authored the paper “The Impact of EU 20 - October 16, 2008. The exhibition was published by Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Structural Funds on FDI ,“ presented at the held under the auspices of the Greek Em - November 2008. The co-author was 65th International Atlantic Economic Soci - bassy in Belgium. Gerasimos Ladas. ety Conference, held in Warsaw, Poland, Reviewed articles for the Journal of Dis - April 9-13, 2008. The paper co-author was Anastasia Houndoumadi, Ph.D. Dynamics in Nature and Society and Odysseus Katsaitis . (Professor III, Psychology) and the Journal of Difference Equations and Ap - Made the presentation “The Reagan Lena Pateraki, Ph.D. plications in June, July and August 2008. Revolution and its Impact on the US Econ - Adjunct Professor, Psychology Is a member of the editorial board of the omy” at the American Studies Seminar Co-authored the Dictionary of Psychology , Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathe - held at the American College of Greece , which comprises 7,100 English-Greek and matics. April 1st, 2008. Greek-English terms and descriptions in all

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areas of research and application, includ - Sylvia Koutsomitopoulou Writing Centers Association Conference ing coverage of concepts, processes and Professor II , Management 2008. therapies across all the major sub-disci - Attended the EFMD annual conference, Presented the paper “‘ Cutting History ’: plines of psychology. The dictionary also hosted by the Norwegian School of Man - The Teacher as Story-telling Martyr in Gra - includes biographical notes on major psy - agement in Oslo, Norway, June 8-10, 2008. ham Swift’s Waterland ” at The Teacher, an chologists. Published by TOPOS, Athens, The theme of the conference was “Does international conference held at the Uni - Fall 2008. Management Education Really Matter?” versity of Glasgow, Scotland, July 2-4, Attended the 4th HRM Global Conference, 2008. Evdhokia Karayanni, Ph. D. hosted by the Economic University of Presented the paper“DesireTells Stories: Professor III, History Athens, May 30, 2008. The Postmodern Lover in the Recent Fic - Published , in Greek, the historical novel tion of Ian McE wan and Graham Swift” at ΛΙΟΝΤΑΡΙΑ , IAMBOS Publications, May Vasilios Lazarou, Ph. D. The Novel and Its Borders, an international 2008. The novel is set during the times of Adjunct Professor, CIS conference held at the University of Ab - Macedonian King Philip 2nd , father of Co-authored and presented the paper erdeen, Scotland, July 8-10, 2008. Alexander the Great . “Employing Agents towards Database Ap - plications Testing at the 21st International Helena Maragou, Ph.D. Gregory Katsas, Ph.D. Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelli - Professor III, English Professor II, Sociology gence (ICTAI’07), held in Patras, Greece Contributed the chapter “Greek ‘Anti- Presented the paper “Trends of the Greek 2007.The paper was co-authored by Spyri - Americanism’” to Political Consequences of Labor Market Today” in the colloquium don Gardikiotis and published by the IEEE Anti-Americanism , Routledge , August “Re-entry in the Labor Market” organized Computer Society Press . 2008. by the non-governmental organization Co-authored the article“Utilising Agent Published, in Greek, the paper “Ameri - Nostos and held in Athens, January 16, Technology for Database Applications can Studies in Greece: Opportunities and 2008. Software Engineering,” published in the In - Challenges .” The paper was included in a Attended the two-day colloquium of ternational Journal of Electronics & Com - collection of essays published jointly by the Association of Greek Sociologists enti - puter Science , Vol.9, No. 2, 2007. The the Hellenic Association of American Stud - tled“NewTechnologies of the Internet and co-author was Spyridon Gardikiotis. ies and the University of Thessaloniki in the Teaching of Sociology ,” held in Athens, Co-authored the article “An Ontology- 2008. January 25-26, 2008. Based Multi-Agent Information System for Presented the paper“Louisa May Alcott Attended the 4th Annual International Maintaining Database Applications ,” pub - and the Nineteenth-Century Cult of Sen - Conference on Migration organized by the lished in the International Journal of Com - sation” at the NeMLA, held in Buffalo, NY, Institute for Migration Policy and held in puter and Information Science , Vol.8, No.5, April 2008. Athens, January 28, 2008.The theme of the 2008 .The co-author was Spyridon Gardiki - Presented the paper“Center and Periph - conference was“How the State and the So - otis. ery in the Discourse of American Studies” ciety of Citizens Can Cooperate Success - Co-authored the chapter “Agent Sys - at The European Association of American fully for the Integration of Immigrants .” tems in Software Engineering” in the Studies conference held in Oslo, Norway, Was responsible for the 1st Interna - book Tools in Artificial Intelligence , pub - May 2008. tional Conference on “Mediterranean lished by I-Tech Education and Publish - Studies” organized by the Athens Institute ing 2008 . The co-author was Spyridon Anna Moni for Education and Research and held in Gardikiotis. Preceptor, Italian Athens , March 20-23, 2008. Received her MA in e-learning from the Headed the scientific committee for the Kostas Levetas, Ph.D. University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy, June 2nd International Conference on Sociol - Preceptor, Management 2008. ogy organized by the Athens Institute for Received his Ph.D. in management from Education and Research and held in Panteion University, June 2008. His thesis, Paraskevi Papadopoulou, Ph.D. Athens, May 12-15, 2008. “Total Leadership Systems,” focused on de - Professor II, Biology veloping a self-sufficient and self-adjust - Co-authored the paper“Development of a Antonis Klidas, Ph .D. ing holistic leadership model that ensures Protocol for Molecular Diagnosis of Tuber - Professor I, Organization and Management balanced performance of a system. ous Sclerosis” and presented it at the 30th Won the Highly Commended Award at the Annual Scientific Conference of the Hel - Literati Network Awards for Excellence Anastasia Logotheti, Ph.D. lenic Society for Biological Sciences, held 2008 for his co-authored article“Managing Professor II, English in Thessaloniki, May 22-24, 2008. The Employee Empowerment in Luxury Hotels Chaired two“Training” panels at the Euro - paper co-authors were S. Avgeris , R. Vrtel ., in Europe ,” published in the International pean Writing Centers Association Confer - D. Anastasiou , P. Papadopoulou, R. Vod - Journal of Service Industry Management , ence 2008, held at the University of icka , E. Anastasiadou, D.J. Stravopodis and vol. 18, issue 1, 2007.The article co-authors Education, Freiburg, Germany, June 19-22 , G.E. Voutsinas. were Dr. Peter T. van den Berg of Tilburg 2008. Attended the 59th National Conference University, The Netherlands , and Dr. Ce - Prese nted the paper“Just the Two of Us: of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, leste P.M. Wilderom of the University of Coordinating Writing Centers across held in Athens, December 7-9, 2007. Twente, The Netherlands). Schools and Campuses” at the European Attended the 33rd FEBS Congress - 11th

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IUBMB Conference on Biochemistry of Cell A Reading of Ian McEwan’s On Chelsea Vassiliki Stephanides Regulations, held in Athens, June 28 – July Beach ” at the Third International IDEA Professor II, Business Administration 3, 2008. Conference : Studies in English organized Attended the “Business Ethics Integration Since 2007, has been receiving research by Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, April 16- to Quality Systems” workshop organized training in Polymerase Chain Reaction, 18, 2008. by the European Business Ethics Network PCR, Reverse Transcriptase, RT , and cancer in Athens , November 27, 2007. cell cultures from Dr. G. Voutsinas at Eleni Patra, Ph.D. Conducted the weekend seminars for Dimokritos Biology Research Institute in Professor II, Management , educators entitled “Teaching Business Athens . Business Administration Ethics: A Case Study” in Bad-Wildungen, Attended the HRM Global 2008 confer - Oberhausen, Germany , March 8 -10, 2008 Dimitra Papazoglou, Ph.D . ence , “Sustainable HRM in the Global and Belgrade, Serbia, March 22-24, 2008 . Adjunct Professor, English Economy ,” held in Turku, Finland, August Conducted the weekend seminar for Presented the paper “Love and Patience: 27-29, 2008. The conference was co-or - educators entitled “Interpersonal and In - ganized by the School of Economics of the trapersonal Communication”, in Limoges, University of Turku and the Human Re - France, May 24-25, 2008. NewTeaching Appointments source Management Study Group of the International Industrial Relations Associa - Emmanuel Varouhas tion. Professor I, Computer Information Services Eight new members were appointed re - Authored and presented the paper“Eco - Attended the Applied Assessment Semi - cently to the teaching staff of the School nomic Characteristics and Labour Market nar organized by AAC SB International in of Arts and Sciences, the School of Busi - of the Prefectures of and Rethym - Tampa, Florida, from June 26-28. He was non of the Region of Crete ,” at the Confer - exposed to examples of best practices ness Administration and the Graduate ence of the Organization for Mediation from within and outside the field of man - School of The American College of and Arbitration, held in Chania, Crete, agement education. Greece, recently. Six of the eight are March 30, 2008. holders of Ph.D. degrees: Dr. Anna Visvizi Ioanna Patsioti-Tsacpounidis, Ph.D . Adjunct Professor, International Sophia Hilentzaris Professor II, Philosophy Business and European Affairs MBA Instructor Published the article“The Relevance of an Presented the paper“At the Crossroads of Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago Aretaic Model in Business Ethics” in The Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Socio-Economic Sciences: The Case of the Mari Janikian Congress of Philosophy, vol.1 , Ethics , pub - EU studies” at the 40th Anniversary Con - Psychology lished by the Philosophical Society of ference of the Socio-Economic College of Ph.D. Northeastern University Turkey, Ankara, 2007. the Warsaw School of Economics, held in Made the presentation “The Employer- Warsaw, Poland, October 23 -24, 2008. The Christos Koritos Employee relationship: an Aretaic ap - same paper was published in a series of Marketing proach” at the postgraduate seminar post-conference publications. Ph.D. Athens University organized by the Society for the Aris - Participated in Halki International of Economics and Business (AUEB) totelian Studies “The Lyceum ,“ held in Seminars, an event gathering scholars, Athens, May 8, 2008. diplomats and politicians. The theme of this year’s event was “Regional Flash - Dimitris Leimonis Angeliki Pollali, Ph.D . points and Transatlantic Policies .” Or - Accounting and Finance Adjunct Professor, Art History ganized by ELIAMEP, the seminar was MBA Drexel University Presented the paper“The Modular System held on the island of Halki, Greece, June in the ArchitecturalTheory of Francesco di 25-29, 2008. Mariella Papadatou-Pastou Giorgio” at the Annual Meeting of the Ren - Psychology aissance Society of America in Chicago, P. Vlachos, Ph.D. MS University of Oxford April 4, 2008. Instructor, Business Chaired the panel “Quattrocento Archi - Co-authored the paper “Corporate Social Iliana Stamogiannou tecture and Architectural TheoryII: Responsibility: Attributions, Loyalty, and Counselling Psychology Francesco di Giorgio Martini” at the Annual the Mediating Role of Trust,” published in and Psychotherapy Meeting of the Renaissance Society of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Psych.D. Surrey University America in Chicago, April 4, 2008. Science (Impact Factor 2007: 1.18). The paper co-authors were Deree ACG faculty Magdalini Soureli Karolina Siskos member Panos Avramides, Ph.D., Argiris MBA Instructor Adjunct Preceptor, Accounting & Finance Tsamakos and Adam Vrechopoulos, Ph.D., Ph.D. The University of Manchester Was admitted as a member of the Associ - of Athens University of Economics and ation of Chartered Certified Accountants Business. Pavlos Vlachos on February 29, 2008. Received the Best Paper Award for the Attended the conference “The Irish co-authored paper “The Moderating Role Marketing Economy Case Study – Background to its of Customer-Technology Contact on Atti - Ph.D. Athens University Recent Success ,” held in Athens, March 31, tude towardsTechnology-based Services ,” of Economics and Business (AUEB) 2008. at the16th European Conference on Infor -

36 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 Faculty mation Systems 2008, held at the National Economics Network between July 7 and Hariclea Zengos, Ph.D. University of Ireland, Galway, June 9-11, September 5. The article has been down - Professor III, English 2008. ECIS is the largest and most presti - loaded 51 times since July 23 , 2008. Presented the paper“Diaspora Identities in gious Information Systems conference in the Greek-Australian Short Story” at the Europe. The paper co-authors were A. Katharina Weiss Ph.D. 10th International Conference on the Theotokis K. Pramatari . Preceptor, Foreign Languages Short Story in English, held at University Presented the co-authored paper“Sales and Literatures College, Cork , Ireland, June 19-21, 2008. Force Reactions to Corporate Social Re - Presented, in German, the book A Crazy sponsibility: Consequences and Modera - Tree: Stories by the Turkish writer Pinar Kür , Sophia Zevgoli, Ph.D. tors” at the 2nd Global Sales Science as a member of the 12th Athens Literary Instructor, English Institute Conference , held in Athens, June Quartet organized by the Greek-German Presented the paper “Differences in the 25-27, 2008. The paper co-author was A. organization Philadelphia, in Athens, De - Specification of Case Features between Theotokis . cember 5, 2007. Standard Modern Greek and the Dialects Had his working paper “Consumer-Re - Attended the seminar“Qualified Prepa - of ” at the fourth Conference on tailer Emotional Attachment: Some An - ration for the Pair Exam for the Goethe- Naxos through Time, held in Naxos, Sep - tecedents and the Moderating Role of Certificate B2,” organized by publishing tember 4-7, 2008. Attachment Anxiety” included in the list of company Hueber Hellas, Athens, June 4, the top ten papers downloaded from the 2008. Ioannis P. Zois, Ph.D. Social Science Research Network’s Mar - Presented the paper “Tutoring across Instructor, Mathematics and Physics keting Network between July 7 and Au - Borders: A German Teacher at the Writing Was a guest speaker at CERN, Geneva, gust 20 . The article has been downloaded Centers of an American College in Greece” Switzerland, where he gave the talk enti - 65 times since May 12 , 2008. at the European Writing Centers Associa - tled “Noncommutative Goldstone Theo - Had his working paper“Corporate Social tion Conference 2008, held at the Univer - rem” during the International Workshop Responsibility and Consumer-Firm Emo - sity of Freiburg, Germany, June 19-22. on“Symmetry, The Origin of Mass and the tional Attachment: Moderating Effects of Chaired a“Curriculum” session at the Eu - Search for the Higgs Boson at the LHC ,” Consumer Traits” included in the list of the ropean Writing Centers Association Con - April 29 – May 2, 2008. top 10 papers downloaded from the Social ference 2008 in Freiburg, Germany, June Science Research Network’s Experimental 19-22 , 2008.

From NewYork to Aghia Paraskevi A Greek American teaches Summer courses at Deree College

By Angela Poulakidas*

This past summer I had the opportunity about Greek culture as I taught them now involves the participation of virtually to teach advertising campaigns and about business, putting significantly the whole world. media planning to Deree College stu - more flesh on my Greek cultural skeleton. As America has given opportunities, dents as a visiting professor from Queens - I always have my cultural heritage with economic and educational, to my family, borough Community College of the City me, but also consider, from my working whose Greek heritage strengthened their University of New York. and living experience in NewYork City and motivation to succeed, I, in turn, recipro - As the past is prelude to the present, Japan, that we live in a shrinking, global, cally hope that my teaching in Greece my Greek heritage from my ancestral multicultural environment wherein many gives my students a greater chance to roots in Chios motivated me to teach in cultures are to be appreciated and be - succeed. Greece so that I could better understand come a part of the fabric of our life. Indeed, My teaching at ACG has made the wheel my heritage. Coming from the dynamic it has been reported by Time magazine come full-circle from the emigration of my mosaic of cultures in New York, I found that my generation and my students’ gen - hard-working grandparents from Greece my experience at ACG, and in Greece it - eration will be more engaged with the to my return to Greece to make a contri - self, unique and inspiring. The beautiful world’s many cultures than previous gen - bution to the ACG community. campus and hospitable faculty and staff erations, as evidenced by the goods and It was an experience I look forward to certainly made me feel at home. Being services we use, the languages we speak, repeating. o engulfed in Greek culture, with its friend - and the ever-growing sense of cultural rel - liness and stirring scenery, was also very ativism. *Angela Poulakidas is a member of the fac - enjoyable. The students were engaging A good example of the intensifying in - ulty at Queensborough Community College and sophisticated in their level of aware - tertwining of nations is the Olympics. The in Bayside, New York. She taught advertis - ness of business topics. Indeed, I ended Olympics, invented by the innovative ing Campaigns and media planning at up learning as much from the students , have evolved into an event that Deree College during the summer of 2008.

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This is a summary of an article published in tor of the hotel industry, where a highly aiming at meeting or exceeding cus - the International Journal of Service Industry demanding clientele and high standards tomers’ expectations during routine and Management in January 2007. The article of service quality require empowered – especially – non-routine service situa - won the Highly Commended Award at the (frontline) employees. tions. Examples are: bypassing routine Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008. Empowerment requires employees to procedures or bending the rules to please Co-authors, along with Dr. Antonis Klidas, engage in discretionary behavior, with - customers; taking immediate action to re - were Dr. Peter van den Berg (Tilburg Univer - out referring first to a higher authority, solve customer complaints, even if the sity) and Prof. Dr. Celeste P. M. Wilderom (Uni - complaint is not directly related to their versity of Twente), both from the Netherlands. area of responsibility – so-called “com - “Employees are more plaint ownership”; making financial con - Since the 1980s industry and academia cessions (e.g., reducing customers’ bills), have shown growing interest in the notion likely to make so as to pacify complaining customers of employee empowerment. In services independent decisions and ensure satisfaction; using creativity and hospitality empowerment is seen as and doing “whatever it takes” to please the notion of devolving decision-making for the benefit of the customers, even beyond what is ex - authority and responsibility to frontline pected of them; and, generally, exercising employees for control and enhancement customer when they discretion in their dealings with guests. In of service quality and customer satisfac - short, empowerment reflects the demon - tion during service delivery. Empower - perceive the values of stration by employees of independent ment has become especially important for their organization as decision-making, initiative and creativity services and hospitality, where frontline to enhance customer satisfaction. employees need the authority to respond supporting service In our study, we offered a model for im - promptly to the individual needs of the in - plementing employee empowerment. creasingly demanding customer in often quality and customer Specifically, we examined the importance unpredictable service situations. Such sit - of: (1) training, especially in customer care; uations typically occur in the upscale sec - satisfaction” (2) the provision of performance-related

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rewards, or the extent to which rewards demonstrate discretion and initiative, but decisions, praise them when they succeed depend on individual performance; (3) the the ones that have the backing of their and forgive, teach and coach them when promotion of a customer-oriented organi - managers and a customer-oriented cul - they make a mistake. Failure to align man - zational culture, that is, a culture oriented ture. agers’ behavior with organizational em - towards service quality and customer sat - Finally, our study did not confirm our powerment programs is bound to create isfaction, and (4) management style, spe- expectation that performance-related re - confusion in employees and undermine cifically the extent to which managers wards contribute to employee empower- the empowerment process. support employees in the exercise of ini - ment. We attribute this result to the Training: Although our results did not tiative and decision-making. Our model absence of incentives targeting frontline support our expectations regarding train - was tested through empirical research car - employee discretion at the hotels studied. ing, one should not dismiss the value of ried out among 356 frontline employees In particular, the available individual per - training when empowering employees. of 16 upscale properties of an interna - formance-related rewards targeted al - Training may not determine whether em - tional hotel chain spread across seven Eu - most entirely “up-selling” (e.g, room ployees will eventually exercise independ - ropean countries: Italy, England, Belgium, nights, liquor) and, hence, would not lead ent decision-making and action, but it may the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and to empowerment. improve the quality and effectiveness of Greece. For services and hospitality this study such decisions or initiatives once they are The results provided support for the has highlighted some key interventions taken. Management should incorporate in contribution of a customer-oriented cul - that are needed for effective employee the training process courses for enhancing ture and an empowering management empowerment. Regarding the processes employees’ communication skills and ad - style on employee empowerment. Re - studied we recommend: ditional skills in the areas of decision-mak - garding customer-oriented culture, our re - Customer-oriented culture: Manage - ing, complaint handling and customer sults suggest that employees are more ment should consistently strive to institute care. Such “soft” skills will enable them to likely to make independent decisions for a culture strongly oriented to service qual - deal effectively and independently with the benefit of the customer when they ity and customer satisfaction.This requires non-routine service situations. Further - perceive the values of their organization as more, one should not underestimate the supporting service quality and customer value of training in shaping employee per - satisfaction. The results also underlined “Contrary to ceptions about what is desirable and val - the importance of an empowering man - expectations, training ued in an organization. In that sense, agement style. Specifically, our study con - training may reinforce a customer-ori - firmed the idea that frontline employees employees to effectively ented culture. are more likely to exercise discretion and Performance-related rewards: Consider - initiative in their interactions with cus - master the demands ing that in most of the hotels included in tomers when they have the encourage - our study performance-related rewards ment, support, trust and confidence of of their job tasks is not mainly target up-selling, the principal im - their superiors. In addition, such“empow - decisive as to whether the plication for management may be to align ering” behaviors also provide (directly or the reward system to the empowerment indirectly) signals to employees about employees will eventually process by instituting rewards for excel - what is valued in the organization and lence in customer care. This was not the what management expects from them. exercise discretion during case in any of the hotels studied. Contrary to expectations, no support In conclusion, employee empowerment has been offered for the effect of training. service delivery” is an important strategy for those service This result indicates that training employ - and hospitality organizations that strive to ees to effectively master the demands of not only the rhetoric of the company’s build a competitive advantage through their job tasks is not decisive as to whether commitment to the goal of service quality the provision of exceptional service qual - the employees will eventually exercise dis - and customer satisfaction, but also a more ity. In order to effectively implement em - cretion during service delivery. It may be specific organizational alignment towards ployee empowerment these organizations that training is important in enabling em - this goal. This should include organiza - need to instill a customer-oriented culture ployees to engage effectively in inde - tional policies and practices, systems and and ensure that their managers “walk the pendent decisions and actions during procedures and explicit guidelines for peo - talk” of the empowerment rhetoric. o service delivery, but whether employees ple (management and employees). will actually do so depends on other fac - Empowering management style: Man - tors. Put another way, when it comes to agers willing to empower employees need * Dr. Antonis Klidas is a Professor of Organi - empowerment our results suggest it is not to encourage them to make decisions on zation and Management at the Graduate the well-trained frontline employees who their own, trust them and support their School of The American College of Greece

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The American College of Greece has a well-deserved reputation as one of Greece’s top employers. It offers its employees great op - portunities to develop fulfilling careers. The College is also a major employer of its own graduates, with approximately 190 alumni on its staff. Following is a list of new additions to, and promotions in, the College’s administration:

Marika Andreadis was appointed Manager, Business Office, in September 2008. She joined The American College of Greece in 1992, working for the VP for Finance. In 2002, she became Assistant to the Controller. Ms. Andreadis, who was born and raised in New York, holds a BS in Business Administration from Deree Col - lege. She is mar ried and has two children.

Matina Apostolopoulou was appointed Administrative Assistant in the Office of the Principal at Pierce Col - lege. She holds a BA in Business Management from Leeds Metropolitan University in the U.K. Since her graduation, she has held administrative positions in the private sector at various companies, mostly in the marketing industry. She joined The American College of Greece in October 2006.

Katia Avramidou was appointed Administrative Assistant in September 2008. She joined The American College of Greece in September 1994 and has served in various administrative position since then. In 2007 she moved to the office of the Associate Dean of the School of Business Administration. Avramidou holds an Associate Degree in Executive Secretarial Studies and Training from Deree College. She is married and has two sons.

Nicky Bardani was appointed Payroll Coordinator effective September 1, 2008. Bardani joined The Amer - ican College of Greece in January 2007. She holds a ptychion with honors in Economics (specialization in operations research and systems analysis) from the Athens University of Economics and Business. During her twelve year career, she has held the positions of financial and personnel manager for a company in the healthcare sector and was a payroll officer for EFG Business Services of the EFG Eurobank Ergasias Group. Badani is a member of the Economic and Scientific Chamber of Athens.

Vassiliki (Vicky) Bouzi was appointed Executive Coordinator of Admissions effective September 1, 2008. Ms. Bouzi joined The American College of Greece in January 2007 as Coordinator of Undergraduate Ad - missions at the Downtown Campus. She holds a BS in marketing from Deree College. After her graduation, she held positions in the client services sectors of several companies, mostly in the finance industry. They include foreign exchange dealer, stockbroker, portfolio manager, and subscriptions manager for an inter - national political and financial magazine. Immediately prior to joining ACG, Ms. Bouzi was a client trainer and services executive for Reuters Hellas.

Claudia Carydis Benopoulou (PC ‘81, DC ‘84) was appointed Executive Director of Communications and Alumni Relations in November 2008. She holds an MA in Int. Relations and Communication from Boston Uni - versity and a BS in Business Administration from Deree. She joined ACG in 2005 as Exec. Director of Alumni Relations. Previously she had worked in marketing and communications for several companies, including Publicom Hill & Knowlton, NetMed Hellas and City Press, as well as at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her re - sponsibilities will now include ACG internal and external communications, while still covering the Alumni Relations operation. She is married to Dr. Yiannos Benopoulos and they have two boys, age 10 and 6.

Stavroula (Vivi) Consta was appointed Director of the Student Success Center and the Registrar’s Office in September 2008. Ms. Consta joined The American College of Greece in December 2006. Following her graduation from Pierce College, Ms. Consta earned a BSc in mathematical sciences from Bath University in the United Kingdom and went on to earn an M.Phil. degree in medical statistics from the University of Wales, College of Cardiff. After completing her studies in 1992, she started working in the field of market research as a statistics consultant first for IRI Hellas SA and later for Opinion SA. Before joining ACG she was a data analyst for SPSS BI Greece. Ms. Consta is married and has one child.

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Elias Hatzis was appointed Coordinator of Human Resources Administrative Services effective Sep - tember 1, 2008. Hatzis holds an MA in contemporary European studies from the University of Sussex and a BA in international relations with a minor in Business Administration from Boston University. In February 1997, he completed a Stage with the Directorate General XIX-Budgets of the European Com - mission. He started working at The American College of Greece in November 1998. In January 2001, he was transferred to the Office of Human Resources, where he has been working since.

Niki Kladakis was appointed Senior Administrative Assistant to the Office of the Vice President for Ac - ademic Affairs. Born and raised in Canada, Kladakis graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in psychology, and a minor in sociology. She worked for Bell Canada before moving to Greece in 1993. She joined the College in 1994. She is married and has a daughter.

Maria Kritikou was appointed Admissions Officer in September 2008. She joined The American Col - lege of Greece in January 2006, as a member of the staff of the Office of Enrollment Management of the Graduate School. Following her graduation from Deree College with a BA in communications, she held the position of amenities assistant at an Athens 2004 Olympics Project run by Coca-Cola and TUI Hellas Tourist Company, where she was later hired as a personal assistant to the director providing adminis - trative support for the sales and supplier relations departments as well as planning and organizing in - centive trips.

Maria Laiou was appointed Executive Coordinator of the Office of Career Services in September 2008. A 1995 Pierce College alumna, Laiou joined the American College of Greece as a staff member of the Of - fice of Career Services in October 2003 and was promoted to Coordinator of Career Events of the same office in September 2006. She received a Bachelor of Arts in communication from Baldwin-Wallace Col - lege in Berea, Ohio, in 1999.

Dina Paraskevopoulou was appointed Senior Administrative Assistant to the Office of Cultural Affairs effective September 1, 2008. She first joined the staff of The American College of Greece in September 1994 and has worked in Cultural Affairs ever since. She holds an associate degree in office technologies and management from Deree College. She is married with two children.

Hildegard Provata was appointed supervisor of the Pierce College Theater effective September 1, 2008. Ms. Provata was born in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, and moved to Greece in 1980. She joined the College in 1990. She has studied accounting and finance in Germany. She is married to Vassilis Provatas and they have three daughters age 30, 28 and 26.

Katerina Thomas (Ph.D., Professor III, Archaeology and History) was appointed Academic Vice President ad interim , and Dean of Undergraduate Faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences effective April 2, 2008. Dr. Thomas received her Ph.D. in classical archaeology from Brown University, her MA in the same field from Tufts University, and her BA with honors from Brandeis University, all in the United States. She joined The American College of Greece in 1987. She has extensive archaeological experience. Since 2004 she has been collaborating with a Brown University team excavating the Tongobriga site in Portugal.

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Alumni

It’s (y)our call. (Yes, we can!)

As plans for various alumni events are being finalized I realize that another exciting academic ! year is upon us. To start with, as you might have already read, the academic year 2008-2009 has i been officially named “Presidential Inaugural Year 2008-2009” in celebration of Dr. David G.

Horner’s assuming the presidency of The American College of Greece. This is of particular inter - D est to the alumni of this institution, as a number of events will provide you with additional op - n portunities to return, reconnect and reunite with fellow alumni and former professors , as well as E meet with ACG’s new president. T For years our College has been committed to the advancement of education offered to Greek and international students. Having the chance to meet more and more alumni as time goes by, I can - m not help but feel the dynamism and the potential of such a diverse and unique social and pro - C fessional network which today stretches all over Greece and the world. E

Nor can I stress enough the importance of alumni staying connected to our institution and get - u ting more and more engaged with its mission. In fact, the extent of alumni participation and l support will determine the extent of the success of our efforts to further advance this institu - N tion. I believe I speak on behalf of all of us when I say that advancing education should be con - sidered a most cherished investment for the future of our nation as a whole. And you, our alumni, can help us enhance the opportunities for current and prospective students so that they can ex - N A perience an education even better than the one we were privileged to get.

So come aboard this most rewarding journey, first by joining us in events like the cocktail re - O ception for alumni residing in Thessaloniki on November 21, the ACG ART Gallery grand

opening on December 3, our alumni Christmas Party on December 11th, the inauguration of C our new president on March 7, and the ACG Alumni Gala Dinner in May 2009 . Make sure to check our website (www.acg.edu ) on a regular basis for more information on dates and venues.

Even more, help us make it all bigger and stronger by making a contribution, either of your time Y and ideas, or by sponsoring our activities . It will be for the benefit of both our institution and ourselves as alumni ! The time is now, and it’s our call! A

Best regards, T

Claudia Carydis (PC’81, DC’84) S Executive Director of Communications and Alumni Relations [email protected] E P.S. The Closing Thoughts column in this issue (page 72), written by our fellow alumnus Demetris Zene - tos (DC ‘95), conveys what I think of as “the ACG alumni spirit.” Thank you Demetri for sharing your feel - ings with us and our fellow classmates! W

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Alumni 3rd Deree College Sports Homecoming

Dozens of alumni/former athletes re - united for a day full of sports and fun at the 3rd Deree College Sports Homecom - ing, which took place on September 27 at the Aghia Paraskevi campus. The homecoming focused on team sports: soccer, basketball and volleyball were on the competition menu, with men participating in soccer and basketball and women in basketball alone.There was also a mixed volleyball game between men and women alumni. Fired up by the competition and with smiles on their faces from reconnecting with old friends, participants afterward gathered at Goody’s, the College’s cafe - teria, and enjoyed a BBQ and refresh - ments. ACG President Dr. David G. Horner awarded alumni athletes their medals. In his short address Dr. Horner said that he considers it a privilege to have the op - portunity to work with the College’s alumni in the future. “Being part of an intercollegiate team makes you see the contribution it can make in the life of students,”President Horner added. “I’m looking forward to meeting and working with you, our alumni, since you are part of the resources we need to advance the College in the years ahead. Your involvement is very im - portant in the American tradition of edu - cation”. Alumni volunteers Marilena Stravole - mou, Aris Fotopoulos, and Alexia Tsa - lopoulou, as well as DC Ambassadors Oliver Bailey, Christina Tsalopoulou and George Theocharis proved invaluable to the success of the sports homecoming. Intersport, the large Greek sports equip - ment retailer, sponsored the T-shirts that were distributed for free to all alumni-par - ticipants, while George Vassilaras (DC‘92), operations and quality director of Vivartia SA’s Goody’s division, made it possible for the alumni-athletes to use Goody’s for the purposes of the event. Participating alumni were welcomed by Executive Director Claudia Carydis on behalf of the Offices of Athletics and Alumni Relations and the College’s ad - ministration. The ACG Latin Group, under the direc - tion of Latin dance instructor Maria No- mikou, gave a spicy performance which was cheered by all present.

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46 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 Alumni Alumni Alumni Services at ACG In recent years, The American College of Greece, has been expanding its services to its alumni and adding new items to the list. Following is a list of the most important of those services, along with contact information. The College will continue to add new programs that benefit its alumni.

Career Services Alumni seeking employment or in the process of changing career paths can register with the Placement Services program. They can also submit their resume in order to participate in the annual Career Forum. In case an alumnus/a is interested in recruiting ACG students or fellow alumni, he or she can post the job position with Placement Services, conduct general recruitment through Career Forum, or highlight career opportunities during a company presentation! Alumni can also share their experiences in the job market with current students by participating as guest speakers at career-related events. Those of our alumni who are thinking about pursuing graduate studies can visit Career Services to get ad - vice on the application process. All career-related services are free of charge. For information contact the Office of Career Services at 210 600 9800/9, Exts. 1311 & 1313 or e-mail [email protected]

Library Services Library services for Deree, Junior, and Graduate School alumni differ from those for Pierce alumni. Deree/Junior/Graduate School alumni have access to the Deree and Downtown libraries and services for an annual fee of only €30. Those registered for the program have full access to the print and electronic resources at both libraries and can borrow up to two books for a period of one week. Photocopy services are also avail - able for a fee. The printing of documents is free of charge. Pierce alumni have access to the Pierce Library only; the membership fee is also €30. Those registered have full access to that library’s print and electronic resources and can borrow up to two books for a period of one week. Printing of documents is free of charge and photocopy services are available for a fee. For information contact 210-6009800, ext 1348, or e-mail [email protected]

Learning Difficulties Services The Hallowel Diagnostic and Counseling Center for Learning Difficulties offers assessment and treatment to young people and adults. For more information regarding help for conditions such as dyslexia, attention deficit, and performance anxiety. For information contact the Center at 210-6009800, ext. 1030 or e-mail: hal - [email protected]

Chapel services The College’s idyllic Byzantine-style chapel of the Three Hierarchs is open to alumni for the conduct of mar - riages and baptisms. For information contact the Office of Public Affairs at 210-6009800/9, ext. 1109.

Alumni Center in Plaka The beautiful neoclassical building that The American College of Greece owns on 17B Ipitou Street, in Plaka, can be used to host selected alumni events and also serves as a downtown daily meeting place for our alumni from any of the four divisions who wish to visit it. The Center’s regular operating hours are Mon.-Fri. 9:00 – 17:00. For information contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 210-6009800/9, ext. 1370 or e -mail: [email protected]

Reunions The Office of Alumni Relations regularly organizes reunions, as well as sports homecomings, receptions, ex - hibitions, presentations of books by alumni and other events for ACG graduates. In order to be notified of such events, alumni must update their records in the alumni database by contacting the Office of Alumni Re - lations at 210-6009800/9, ext. 1370 or e -mail: alumni@acgmail .gr

Transcripts, Degrees Alumni who need a copy of their transcript or a certified copy of their degree may contact the Student Suc - cess Center at 210-6009800-9, ext. 1326, 1333, 1334 or e-mail [email protected] and they will be helped on the spot.

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DC ’90-‘95 Reunion

On one of the rainiest days (and nights!) of Deree College alumni constitute a strong us all proud of being Deree graduates [...] the whole year, the Office of Alumni Rela - network of people. Wherever I go as a As an alumnus I must emphasize how im - tions welcomed about 300 alumni and for - trainer, I always come across a familiar face portant it is that we remain close and sup - mer and current faculty members to the that will smile and say a friendly‘hello’ and portive of our alma matter. It is important Deree College Reunion of the classes ’90 - I will discover a Deree College alumnus or to ensure that Deree remains a leading col - ‘95, held at the Deree Gym on March 20, alumna writing his or her own success lege, benefiting more generations of stu - 2008. story,” said Ioanna Konstantinou, (PC ’86, dents and – why not? – our own kids too”. The event offered alumni from those DC ‘90), a CIS professor at Deree, during Mitarachi was invited as guest speaker and years an opportunity to visit their alma her welcoming remarks. flew to Athens from London just for the mater once again, many for the first time “Deree College played a paramount role occasion. since graduation. It also provided them in both my career and my life. I am full of Executive Vice President Nicholas Ji - with an opportunity to reconnect with fel - great memories from my years here […] In avaras and Executive Director of Alumni low classmates and friends. this gym we came for orientation and reg - Relations Claudia Carydis welcomed the The gloomy weather affected turnout istration, here we shared enthusiasms and guests on behalf of the College adminis - but did not dampen the spirits of those big career dreams, and in this gym we tration. Special thanks should go to the that made it. Soon, the gym was full of graduated,” said Notis Mitarachi (DC ’95), a members of the organizing committee, smiling faces and the joyful sounds of old former president of the student union: Ioanna Konstantinou (PC ’86, DC ‘90), De - friends reuniting. “The majority of graduates have moved on spina Gavrili (DC ’94) and Makis Billionis “My perspective as an instructor and a to leading universities and prominent po - (DC‘95), who worked hard to make the re - business trainer has helped me realize that sitions in the professional world, making union a success.

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DC ’90-‘95 Reunion

50 Alumni Alumni Henkel Gives Deree Students RealWorld Experience

The spring 2008 semester marked the second time that Deree College students had the opportunity to work on real world problems courtesy of Henkel Hellas, the Greek subsidiary of the German home products giant. Students of the IMC class of Pro - fessor Stephanos Lianos met with the Marketing Director of Henkel Laundry & Home Care, Kon - stantinos Bersos (DC ’83), and worked on a brief delivered by Henkel both at the Aghia Paraskevi and the Downtown campuses. The brief focused on the recent launch of Dixan Active Ashes laundry detergent. The students worked on the project until the end of the spring semester and presented the re - sults of their labors at the audito - rium. Junior College Dean Kathleen Rys, Professor Stephanos Lianos and Mr. Bersos were present to evaluate the group assignments, which were all judged as very competitive. The project provided students with a great opportunity to work on a real case study, since Dixan Active Ashes had been previously rolled out successfully in the Greek market. The successful cooperation between Deree Col - lege and Henkel Hellas is continuing during the fall 2008 semester with a new project on a different Professor Stephanos Lianos and Konstantinos Bersos, along with his son, with Henkel brand. o students at the Aghia Paraskevi campus

Breakfast Meeting in Plaka

About 20 DC alumnae met at the Alumni Center in Plaka last February for an infor - mal get-together over breakfast. It was the first meeting of its kind, organized by the Office of Alumni Relations for a small group of women graduates of the College, for networking purposes.The guest list in - cluded professionals from a wide range of sectors in business and the arts. Associate Associate Dean Lila Mordohae (PC‘69, DC ‘73) of the School of Business Administra - tion addressed the gathering and opened it up for a lively discussion touching upon a variety of topics. Professor Sylvia Kout - somitopoulou (PC‘66, DC‘70), who heads the Management Department, Vice Presi - dent for Human Resources and Executive Director ad interim of Administrative Sup - port Services at ACG Iliana Lazana (DC ‘91), and Sophia Leoussis (DC ’78), gen - eral secretary of the Alumni Association, were among the participants. o

52 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 Alumni Searching for theTalentedWriter inYou Alumnus Yorgos Kasfikis (DC ‘04) returns to campus as an instructor at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies

By Zinovia-Christina Liapi*

Asked to describe their alma mater in one word, most alumni would simply call it “home.” In a home, you grow, you evolve, you explore and eventually you fly away, always carrying it with you, in your jacket’s inner pocket; the one closest to your heart. There comes a time though, when you return, and it is the time when you want to “give something back,” as alumnus Yorgos Kasfikis (DC ‘04) put it upon his return to the Aghia Paraskevi campus as an instruc - tor at the School of Continuing and Pro - fessional Studies of The American College of Greece. But let’s take this story from the begin - ning... For Kasfikis, his years at Deree were the best of his life so far. The inspiring envi - ronment, the quality and applicability of ideal vehicle for his twin loves, writing and consequence, films are a powerful me- the courses and some of his professors left psychology, and as a way to contribute to dium to understand psychology. A person an indelible mark and influenced the the art of filmmaking, which he loves can both enjoy a film and learn about psy - course of his life. He still reveres professors, chological phenomena.” like the late Dr. Versi, who became his The art of writing can be taught In contrast to poetry, writing can be mentor and made him fall in love with psy - When not writing scripts for movies or taught, Kasfikis said, but added that there chology in the first place; or like Dr. Kosto - music videos, Kasfikis teaches seminars are no easy shortcuts to glory.“Hard work gianni, who taught him the magic of like“Psychology for scriptwriters,”“Movies is equally essential to talent,” he said. psychotherapeutic theory and the art of and mental illness,” “Script editing I & II,” “Many distinguished writers have come looking upon life and psychology always and “Creative writing workshop” at ACG’s from the ranks of the hard-working.” In the from an optimist’s point of view; or like Dr. School of Professional and Continuing case of scriptwriting, which is by nature Ventouratos, who showed him the way to Studies. Many of the topics he engages the most scientific form of writing, hard scientific thought. have never been taught in Greece or even work and attention to detail are even more “Deree pulled me down to earth but in Europe. Kasfikis finds SCPS an ideal essential. “The slightest misstep lets the without depriving me of my wings,” Kas - place to develop such innovative ap - movie go astray,” Kasfikis added. fikis told ACG Magazine. “It made me or - proaches, a place adventurous enough to His class rosters comprise a varied ganized and responsible both in my give a seemingly odd idea a chance to group of people from all walks of life: professional and my private life.” prove itself. He creadits SCPS Director communications graduates who want to After studying psychology at Deree and Vicky Vassilakou-Lambrou with giving him turn to scriptwriting, people who try to working for several non-profit organiza - the opportunity to experiment with his discover the depth of their talent and tions, Kasfikis turned his attention to an - own courses. their commitment to writing, or even other part of himself: his need to write, a Kasfikis mystifies his scriptwriting stu - people who just want to spend an after - need he had been nursing since he was 14 dents by using examples from personali - noon doing something creative. But years old. ties as diverse as Aristotle, Linda Aronson, time and again great surprises have “I started off by writing poetry and lyrics Charlie Kaufman and Alan Ball. come from where he least expected during mathematics class in high school,” “Psychology helps to create a script that them. “There are students I am particu - he said. “Later, at Deree, I wanted to be a works,” he told ACG Magazine.“To make a larly proud of,” Kasfikis concluded. Peo - writer and have psychology as my hobby, story come alive, the writer must under - ple like the Deree communications not the other way around,” stand human behavior.” With the help of graduate who, after completing all Kas - So he changed course, and studied for psychology a writer will learn to create fikis’ classes, is continuing her studies at a master’s degree in scriptwriting at Lon - convincing motivation, believable iden - the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Insti - don Goldsmiths University, from where he tity development, and archetypes that tute in Los Angeles. o graduated with distinction. With no less produce authentic screen moments. than the iconic film director Pedro Almod - Through films a person can comprehend *Zinovia-Christina Liapi works for the Of - ovar – one of his idols – as his inspiration, psychology. “Nothing conveys informa - fice of Communications and Alumni Rela - Kasfikis decided to become a professional tion or evokes emotion quite as clearly as tions of The American College of Greece scriptwriter. He saw scriptwriting as the our sense of vision,” Kasfikis insisted.“As a ([email protected])

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More Success Stories

During the summer and fall of 2008, Deree velopment Manager Flocafé, Vivartia SA, Papadimitriou , Information Technology College continued its Success Stories ad - Katerina Gagaki, Communications and Director, Creta Farm Group Of Compa - vertising campaign, with rounds five and Public Relations Director, ΑΝΤΕΝΝΑ , nies, Mariella Patiki , HR Manager, six of the very successful series, proudly Constantinos Gregoriades, Managing Boutari Wineries SA, Stathis Sahinis , featuring another 32 Deree College alumni Director & Chief Investment Officer, Managing Director, LMG, Leadership who have distinguished themselves in a Global Wealth Management, Fotini Management Group SA, Sara- variety of careers. The campaign has Geromalidou , Managing Director, Wun - foglou, Marketing Manager, Wholesale proved to be an excellent testimony to the derman SA, Athanassios Gyftakis , Di - Banking Marketing & Support Division, quality education offered atThe American rector Business Unit Property, Athens EFG Eurobank Ergasias SA , Nikos Sofi - College of Greece while increasing public International Airport, Haris Karaoulanis anos , CEO, Shelman Sofianos Floors SA, awareness about the diversity of programs M.A., ECP , Psychologist – Psychotherapist, Nassos Sopilis , Composer / Producer / offered at Deree College. Partner & Trainer, Greek Biosynthesis DSP lab Studios, Theodore Stathopou - Following, in alphabetical order, are the Center , Angelos Karayiannis , President los , Deputy General Manager, Karamella, alumni who were featured in the two ads. and CEO, Karayiannis Group of Compa - Total Communication Company, An - We thank them all for their participation nies, Secretary General, American Hel - dreas Syrigos, Group Human Resources and their continual commitment to and lenic Chamber of Commerce, Michael & Administration Director, Creta Farm support for their alma mater. Katounas , Vice President, Middle east Group of Companies , Christine Thomas, Coverage, Investment Banking, Credit Founder & Director, The Flopsy Bunnies Christos Alexandrou , Singer-Performer- Suisse, Sofia Kouzinopoulou , HR Direc - Playgroup, Engligh Nursery and Kinder - Vocal Coach, Evangelos Antzoulatos , tor, International Engineering, Yahoo - garten , George Tsopelas , Director, Mc Ph .D., Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of London, Alexandra Manou , Senior Kinsey & Company, Mary-Irene Trianta- Brain & Cognitive Sciences-Massachu - Consultant, Achieveglobal, Mer - fyllou , Marketing Director, EMERY setts Institute of Technology, Angelyn couri, Group Account Director, LOWE WINES, Vicky Varfis , Deputy General Balodimas-Bartolomei, Ph.D., Professor Athens, Sofia Nicolaou , Group Manager, Manager, Elounda SA Hotels & Resorts, of Comparative International Education, Mass Market (IW), Microsoft US, Ismene Manolis Vrontis , General Manager for School of Education, North Park Univer - Pampouca, Tax Technology Europe , BP Sales, Asia, BIC, Miranda Xafa , Alternate sity, US, Chryssi Douka , Director, KPMG, Hellas SA, Loukia Papadaki , Actress , Executive Director, International Mone - Eleni Drossou , Marketing & Business De - candidate for Parliament, Athanassios tary Fund, Washington D.C. o

54 The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 Alumni Association Promotes Member Networking

 On March 14th, 2008, the Alumni Association organized a party for all Deree College alumni at T-Palace of the King George Hotel on the occasion of the 6th Annual Network - ing Cocktail. The Networking Cocktail aims to bring to - gether Deree alumni, strengthen ties among them, and encourage the exchange of work and business experiences. This year’s event proved a great success thanks to the or - ganizing committee, especially fellow alumnus Terry Marsellos (DC ‘01). The event was sponsored by the com - panies El Petrol, Remax, Red Bull, V. Theodosiou Οptika, Sklintegrated, and Discobole.

 On June 24, a few days after Commencement 2008, the Alumni Association also organized a welcome party at the club Island in , for the DC graduating class of 2008 and welcomed new alumni to the ACG alumni family.

Photos from the 6th Annual Networking Cocktail. Above: (from left) DC '97 alumni Zeta Tzioti, George Karabelas, and Stamoulis Pavlou Right: (from left) Vicky Syrigou, Sofia Leoussi, Panagiotis Milopoulos, Zeta Tzioti, Efi Xanthaki, Terry Marsellos, Liana Kallierou, Nancy Milopoulou, Olga Pavlidou

Participate in the 2009 elections for the Alumni Association Board

Join the ACG Alumni Association to ensure a comprehensive representation of alumni interest and help us achieve the Association’s goals.

The Alumni Association elections will take place March 16, 2009 . Six new board members (three from Deree College and three from Pierce College) will be elected to the 12-member board by the Association’s General Assembly . Only registered members are eligible to vote or stand as candidates.

To find out how to become a member of the Alumni Association please contact the Alumni Association office: Tel.: 210 770 7507 (12:00 – 16:00) Fax: 210 770 2210 E-mail: [email protected] 3 Kartali St, 115 28 Athens, Greece

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Deree has been a lot more than a College dent life should be! And after a great grad - to me. It has been the place where I was uation, I went to Sussex University for first able to study what I really wanted. postgraduate studies in clinical psychol - Three years before the start of my studies, ogy, only to find that my level of under - I was struggling to enter a Greek univer - graduate studies was at least as good as sity and, after a huge effort, I succeeded theirs. Sure we had some things to com - in securing a place at a school I was not in - plain about at Deree, things like overpop - terested in. So, instead of spending my life ulation or class schedules. But above all, doing something that would make me Deree provided me with knowledge, a miserable, I left the Polytechnion and critical mind, confidence in myself and the came to Deree to study psychology. I shall momentum to move towards my goals. never forget my first impressions going And that is exactly what an academic in - up the road to register... the grass, the nice stitution should do for its students. So buildings, the clean surroundings, the when, thirteen years after my graduation, helpful staff! This definitely seemed to be I arrived on campus to teach my first sem - a very different place from the one I was inar at the School of Continuing and Pro - Haris Karaoulanis (DC ’90) coming from. Here I found an academic fessional Education, it really felt like MA, ECP, environment that actually valued and re - returning home after some time away. o Psychologist-Psychotherapist, warded achievement. Instead of me hav - ing to struggle in order to learn, the Partner & Trainer, faculty and staff really helped and advised Greek Biosynthesis Centre me. The library was way better than the one at the Polytechnion. There was more in store for me, though. The College re - warded me for my high CI with scholar - ships, which enabled me to work less outside and study with even greater en - thusiasm. I also made real friends, partied really hard and had a student life as stu -

Deree College. One institution, thou - warded later in my career. I entered the sands of graduates, each one pursuing a business world quite early and had the different career. We are all connected, chance to work for three companies with though, by a common bond far greater a fine reputation in the marketing re - than common studies and interpersonal search sector. Later on, I pursued a mas - relationships. We are connected by a phi - ters degree at Leicester University in the losophy that defines us as professionals UK. Today, I am account director at MRB and guides our career development. This Hellas, handling major multinational and is why I strongly believe that my studies local accounts. I have the chance to work at Deree are a valuable asset for me and with the top management of my client have contributed mightily to my career. companies on very challenging market My studies gave me team spirit, and issues, from product performance and armed me with the ability to work effec - brand positioning to strategic corporate tively under pressure, to meet deadlines, planning, and so far I have gained exten - to set high standards for everyday tasks, sive experience and insight into many to seek multiplicity, to adapt to new fields of social research and communica - Zoe Tritsarolis (DC ’97) things, to develop proactive thinking and tion platforms. o Account Director to read the business environment cor - rectly. That’s why whenever I have the MRB Hellas chance I select new colleagues from among Deree alumni. Like many of my fellow Deree stu - dents, I started my career while still in college. It was a tough and very de - manding period for me. But I was re -

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Lessons on Leadership and Career Planning Dr. Venetia Koussia , (DC‘85), visited the Aghia Paraskevi campus in May 2008 to speak to students majoring in economics or accounting and fi - nance about“Life & Career Planning” through the perspective of her com - pany, Manpower SA. Dr. Koussia is the managing director of Manpower and has been with the company for seven years. Members of the Deree College faculty like Professors Annie Triantafyllou and Avraam-Albert Arouh, Junior College Dean Kathleen Rys and Dr. Koussia’s colleagues, Katerina Kyriakopoulou (DC‘93), Dimitra Papadopoulou (DC‘02) and Maria Edipidi (PC ’98, DC‘02) also attended the lecture that took place in the Events Hall of the Center for the Arts. In a brief but insightful presentation, based on the principles that the people of Man - power work with, Dr. Koussia discussed issues like leadership, decision-making, vision and career management in the ever changing world of work. With quotes like “Study what you like to become, not what is needed from you” and“The best leader is a mature person according to Aristotle,” Dr. Koussia urged stu - dents to explore themselves and the world around them as much as they can before they decide on their life’s path. “Companies will always look for employees with degrees but companies will always hire the commit - ted ones, the ones that are first and foremost at peace with their own selves”, she con - cluded.

Alumnae Nadia Geor - giou (left) and Efi Cot - sapas (far right) met with their former coach, Arthur Christopher and fellow alumnae basket - ball players Assistant Dean Annie Triantafil - lou , and Executive Direc - tor Claudia Carydis over lunch during a visit to the Aghia Paraskevi campus on July 2, 2008. It was the first time all four women got together in 24 years.

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Apostolos Panagiotopou- los (DC ‘98) came back to` Deree College campus to visit the Office of Alumni Relations and update us on news from the Face - Alumnus lends book “front.” Apostolos was also a member of the soccer a hand at ACG team in this year’s Sports Homecoming. performances

Nassos Sopilis graduated from Deree College in 1996 with a BA in music. He holds a piano diploma and a master’s degree in music from the City University of London, including graduate degrees in music technology Vasiliki Milios (DC’ 84), and composition, and has worked with pianist DimitriToufexis and com - dropped by the Office of posers Iannis Xenakis, Dr. Simon Emmerson and Dr. Dennis Kam. Alumni Relations in mid-July Sopilis has been working in the field of music composition and pro - to reconnect with former duction for the past eight years and has composed music for theater, TV, classmates currently work - film, and advertising. He is currently the owner and director of the music ing at ACG. Ms. Milios’ two production studio DSP Lab. He has worked with writers such as Evge - children are currently stu - nios Trivizas and Xenia Kalogeropoulou; and directors such as George dents at Pierce College. Michalakopoulos, Thomas Moschopoulos, Angelos Frantzis and Pana - giotis Seferidis. In cinema, his music was part of award-winning films by KimonTsakiris and Stavros Kaplanidis. Sopilis has also written music for TV shows for ERT, Mega, Alpha and ANT1 television as well as for many advertising campaigns for companies like Coca-Cola and Fanta (in - cluding the TV spots for the Olympic Games of Athens 2004). His other work includes the music themes for the ceremonies of the Film Festival in Thessaloniki, the Ermis Awards and the Greek National Tourism Or - ganization’s International campaigns. The young composer’s plans for 2009 include the composition of music for the International Tour of Cirque du Soleil. Since his graduation, Nassos has kept returning to the ACG campus, helping his alma matter as a volunteer. Since 1997 he has helped in sev - eral shows performed at Deree College such as“Jesus Christ Superstar”, “America On Broadway”,“From Hollywood to Broadway”, and“The Last Five Years”, writing all the arrangements and sheet music and conduct - ing the orchestras and casts. He has also assisted maestro and pianist Dimitri Toufexis at several commencements. During his last visit he worked with Deree College dance instructor Cindi Trent in music edit - ing and sound engineering for the musical Laughing Through Our Tears , which was the final examination of the special topic course MusicalThe - ater Performance Skills. Nassos spent a great deal of time working with the students, guided them along as they learned how to sing and perform with the micro - phones, perfected the sound production, and supervised the engineer on the sound console for the two dress rehearsals and the performance, giving them the opportunity to see a Deree graduate in his professional realm. The performance of Laughing Through Our Tears took place at the Pierce CollegeTheater on May 31, 2008. In a letter to the editor, Ms.Trent wrote:“...It is with pleasure and pride that I inform you of my sincere ap - preciation and gratitude to Nassos Sopilis. I thank him for his sincere in - Annita Palimeri (PC ’85, DC‘91) visited our office this terest, professional expertise and hard work during all these years that summer with her two daughters, updating her records I have had the honor to collaborate with him during my personal proj - and introducing us to the “Global Management Chal - ects. May I also add that he is to be commended for his contributions to lenge,” a corporate strategy contest addressed to uni - other Deree performances and projects, as I am sure Mr.Toufexis and versity students and business executives. other music area faculty would agree. I applaud Nassos for the loyalty and love he has shown for his alma mater.”

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Eri Kehagia (DC’91) visited the Anthony-Alexander Mouratides Office of Alumni Relations on (DC ‘98) visited the Office of June 19, 2008, toured the cam - Alumni Relations early in the sum - pus and learned about the vari - mer of 2008 to update his records ous programs and new facilities and inform us that he has estab - that have made the College lished a successful facility man - such a different place since she agement company. “I would like graduated. Eri was also one of to express my gratitude for the the alumni who participated in positive influence that The Amer - the dinner held at the Yacht ican College of Greece has had on Club of Greece where the Col - my ventures both professional lege announced its Olympian and personal,” he said. Scholarships Program. Urging Freshmen On Orientation Day, on September 4, marked the beginning of 2008 fall semester. President David G. Horner, along with members of the College’s faculty and administration, wel - comed freshmen at the packed Pierce College Theater. The guest speaker on the festive occasion was Spiros Mavrogalos (DC‘91), who spoke to in - coming students about the educationally and personally fulfilling voyage they were about to embark on. “I feel Deree College is like home. Every day I passed here was something new, something dif - ferent,” he told freshmen. “The choice I made to study here paid off fully and it still gives me a lot of pleasure and satisfaction.” He concluded his speech with a quote from a Harvard Univer - sity professor: “Focus on ideas; don’t lose sight of how special this time in your life is. It’s a time to learn.”

Shortly after their graduation in July 2008, Emmanouil Papakonstantinou (DC’08, management), left, and Dimitrios Pa- padopoulos (DC’08, marketing) were back on the Aghia Paraskevi campus to meet fellow classmates and dropped by the Of - fice of Alumni Relations to update their records, learn about alumni services, and express their interest in joining the Alumni Association.

Professor of Comparative International Education at North Park University in Illinois, Dr. Angelyn Balodimas-Bartolomei (DC ‘79), left, and Columbia University Associate Professor of An - thropology, Dr. Neni Panourgia (DC‘81) met for the first time at the Office of Alumni Relations last summer. Their visit to Greece during the summer holidays provided us with a unique oppor - tunity to organize this get-together as well as to reconnect with both of our distinguished alumnae. Dr. Panourgia had been pre - viously featured on the cover of the third issue of the the ACG Magazine, while Dr. Balodimas-Bartolomei had been featured in our latest Deree College ad campaign as one of our alumni “Success Stories.” Here, Dr. Balodimas-Bartolomei (left) with Dr. Neni Panourgia (right).

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by Electra Christodoulou

Society and Estate Agents Association committee. Secretary of the Deree College Alumni Association in Cyprus , he is married and the father of two teenagers. He believes that people can achieve a lot without having to sacrifice values and principles, and that the best way to make new, lifelong friendships is through the Chryssoula Nikolopoulou Christos Calogirou Anna Christoforidou job we do. He always says, “It is important to be able to pursuit of success made her 1981 look people in the eyes after 1972 reconsider her career a business transaction .” choices and explore Christos can be contacted at Chryssoula Nikolopoulou alternative , holistic career Christos Calogirou (DC ‘81) [email protected] (DC ’72) graduated with a BS paths. Four years ago , she was born in Cyprus. in business administration in turned to alternative healing Receiving a BA in business Anna Scarlatou (DC‘81) 1972. She pursued a therapies based on oriental administration in 1981 and graduated with a BA and successful career as a philosophy and the pursuit an MBA in 1983, he joined majored in psychology and supervisor in the purchasing of knowledge of the inner www.bestcyprusproperties.com history. In 1983, at a very department of two major self. For more information in 1985. An active member young age, she obtained an Greek companies, the on the seminars she is of Cypriot society, he has MBA from Philadelphia Hellenic Chemical Products offering you can been involved in sports and University (former PCT&S) in & Fertilizers Co, member visit her website at journalism and with the Red Pennsylvania, with a of the Bodosakis www.shamballawisdom.gr Cross, Round Table, Opera concentration in Foundation (1972– 1995) , In addition, Chryssoula and Gener SA, the maintains the website ABBREVIATIONS construction company www.reikicenter.gr along (1995–2005) that the with her sister. DC Deree College environment ministry and The site covers topics JC Junior College the 2004 Olympic related to philosophy, PC Pierce College healing and occultism. Committee assigned to GS Graduate School construct the Canoe - Kayak You can contact Rowing Center in Schinias. Chryssoula at Class Year is defined as the year of each However, the stressful [email protected] alumna/us' commencement ceremony

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international management and management of human resources. From 1984 to 1986, she attended the MA program in organizational communication and mass media at the University of Delaware. From 1981 to 1986 she was a member of ACG’s DAR group in the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania. Her outstanding career commenced in 1988 , when she came back from the USA and started working as Recruitment and Internal Communication Manager and, later, as Training and Development Director of the Human Resources George Argyropoulos (DC‘85) was married to Lia Klapsidis on May 1, 2008 at the Pantan assa church in Division of Citibank. From Johannesburg, South Africa. George is managing director of Cruises International and a dedicated Deree 1995 to 1997 , she was Alumni Representative (DAR), and Lia is a physiotherapist. They have four daughters, Eleni, Ioanna, Aliki responsible for Strategic and Stamatina from their previous marriages. The Office of Alumni Relations wishes them all happiness! Marketing and Sales of Investment Products. In 1997, she joined EFG 1984 She lives in Hamilton, Ontario , Department at the Eurobank, where she held with her husband George and head office of the National the position of Head of their six-year-old son, Jordan. Bank of Greece, Selection Training and Katerina Tsatsaroni (DC ’84) You can and lives in Piraeus with Development until 2006. It is graduated with a BS in contact Linda at her husband Nikitas worth noting that over the business administration. In [email protected] Zachariou, and their child. years she interviewed and 1990 , she obtained an MS in You can contact Vicky at hired many ACG graduates. mass communication from [email protected] or In 2007 , she joined Emporiki Leicester University in the UK. 1985 [email protected] Bank Group as Deputy She is currently a Special General Manager responsible Consultant to the Deputy for Selection, Training and Merchant Marine Minister. Vivian Mitropoulou (DC ’85) 1988 Development and , in 2008 , She is married to Dr Michalis graduated in 1985 with a BS moved to Emporiki Vlachakis (who has a Ph.D. in in computer information Credicom, where she electrical engineering from systems. During her college Anna Christoforidou (DC ’88) currently holds the position Metsovio Politechnio). They years, she was a member of graduated with a BS in of Organization and have a five-year-old boy the Friendship International business administration. She Development Director. named Nassos and live in Club and served as President lives in Cyprus and is a Media Anna is the Vice President of Voula. You can contact of the Student Council. She Director at Contact the Greek Chapter of the Katerina at [email protected] holds an MBA from Advertising. You can American Society for Training Nottingham Trent University contact Anna at and Development and Linda Mavropoulos- and is Manager of the [email protected] teaches organizational Papadopoulos (DC ’84) International Affairs Division communication in the HRM earned a BS in business of Hellenic Exchanges SA. She graduate program at the administration , major in lives in Athens with her 1990 Economic University of marketing management. She husband, George Katsoulis, Athens. She lives is the Corporate Risk and and their two children. You in Athens and likes reading Insurance Manager of one of can contact Vivian at Maria Margaritis (DC ’90) and travelling. She is married Canada’s largest [email protected] earned a BA in psychology and has two children, a independently owned and obtained an MS in daughter studying at Pierce insurance brokerages. Vicky Sela (PC ’80, DC ’85) applied occupational College and a son who has She also teaches risk graduated from Pierce psychology in 1992 from the just started his studies at management courses on a College in 1980 and University of Wales - College Deree College. part -time basis at the Centre obtained a BS in business of Cardiff in the UK. In June You can reach Anna at for Continuing Studies at administration. She is a 2008 she graduated from the [email protected] McMaster University. Team Leader of the Imports interactive psychotherapy

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parenting groups. Erie is Canterbury College. The keen on traveling, reading, appointment, which dining, bowling, facebooking involves teaching music and being among good performance to friends. undergraduates and Her website address is coordinating all aspects www.psychiki-ygeia.gr and of music performance , she can be reached at also in collaboration with [email protected] Canterbury University, Her favorite sayings are:“We comes after a successful are happy , but we don’t know concert season that it ,““No pain, no gain” and“You included recitals at Marianna Papadopoulou Erie Kechagia learn nothing when you talk.” renowned St-Martin-in-the- Fields and St John’s, MA course at Middlesex she was recently appointed Maria Papastratigaki (DC ’91) Smith Square , with husband University (in association Marketing Manager of Metro graduated with a BA in and pianist Panayotis with the Athens Synthesis Group (Metro Cash & Carry, dance. She holds two Archontides (Deree ‘97), Centre). She is the Global My Market). She also lectures master’s degrees, an MA in premieres of piano solo Retail Advertising Manager at on marketing for distance dance movement therapy works by Greek composers Shell International and lives learning MBA programs in from City University (Laban in London, and a guest in . the UK. Marianna Centre for Movement and appearance on Carole You can contact Maria at can be reached at Dance) , obtained in 1995, Finer’s live radio show [email protected] [email protected] and an MS in child forensic Sound Out (Resonance FM studies from the University 104.4, Southbank, London). Marianna Papadopoulou of Leeds, obtained in 2003. Natalie was (PC ’85, DC’ 90) graduated She lives in Aghia Paraskevi. also a guest speaker at from Pierce College and 1991 You can contact Maria at Career Day presentations at obtained a BS with high [email protected] University of London’s Royal distinction in marketing Elli Economides-Hadjicosta Holloway and Goldsmith’s management and (DC ’91) received a BS in Panagiotis Tsinopoulos College. Natalie graduated management and marketing management and (DC ’91) graduated with a BS in 2007 with her second organisational behaviour. She obtained a general MBA from in management and master’s degree in music then received an MBA from the Cyprus International organizational behavior. He from Royal Holloway, where Imperial College, University Institute of Management in currently works as a Country she researched British of London. After pursuing a 2005. She currently works at Representative for Coltene pianism in the early 20th successful career path in the Central Bank of Cyprus Whaledent in Switzerland century under the guidance various marketing fields at and lives in Nicosia, Cyprus , and is married to Natasa of such famous Hasbro Hellas, Elbisco SA (K. with her husband Marios Tararaki. musicologists Filippou Group) and Katselis Hadjicostas and their child. You can contact Panagiotis at as Nicholas Cook Holding (as Marketing [email protected] and John Rink. Manager of Katselis & Erie (Eleftheria) Kechagia Her research allowed Snackers’ Place retail chains), (DC ’91) earned a BA in her to interview famous psychology and went to 1992 pianists Martino Tirimo, Just Wrote a Book? obtain an MA in counseling Philip Fowke, Yonti The ACG Magazine will psychology from Keele Solomon, the Contiguglia Catherine Demesticha duo and Stephen Hough. proudly feature books by University in the UK in 1993. She completed the (DC ’92) graduated with a BS alumni. Please send us a prevention of drug abuse in marketing management. copy to add to our Alumni and enhancement of mental She lives in Vrilissia and is a 1993 Bookcase. Also send us health training program of Branch Manager at the your contact information the Erevnitiko Panepistimiako Eleftherios Venizelos (mail: Office of Alumni Re - Instituto Psychikisis Ygiinis in Airport branch of Piraeus Poppie Alifraghi (DC ’93) Bank . You can graduated with a BS in lations, The American Col - 1999. She has been running her two private practice contact Catherine at business administration, lege Of Greece, 6 Gravias offices in Athens (since 1994 ) [email protected] majoring in marketing St., 153 42 Aghia Paraskevi, and in Livadia-Viotia (since management. During her Greece; e-mail: 2000 , two days a week) in the Natalie Tsaldarakis (DC‘92) college years, she was a [email protected]; fields of counseling has just been appointed member of the basketball fax: 210-6009601. psychology, teenage and Coordinator for Higher team. In 1997, she completed adult psychotherapy and Education Music at a post-graduate diploma in

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PR at Stirling University and, teaches English and French. in 2001, an MBA in PR at the She lives in with Ecole Superieure Libre des her husband Nikos Marmaras Sciences Commerciales and their son. You can Appliquees . She is the director contact Rania at of the firm thePRside, and [email protected] Director of the Mayor's Office in the municipality of , in . She is married to Panagiotis 1995 Dimitropoulos and they live in Kareas. You can contact Tally Hatzakis (DC‘95) Poppie at [email protected] earned a BS in marketing management. She then Constantinos Limnidis pursued a brief career in Natalie Tsaldarakis & (DC ’93) received a BS in advertising , where she Panayotis Archontides computer information worked as account manager, systems and marketing and before continuing obtained an MBA from her studies abroad. She Cardiff Business School in obtained an MBA with 1994. A Marketing Director at distinction from Aston Info-Quest SA, Constantinos Business School in the UK, lives in Paleo Faliro with his and a Ph .D. in information wife, Mina Gdisi. You can systems management from contact him at Brunel University in the UK. [email protected] She is currently pursuing a successful academic career with international 1994 publications in the field. She is a member of the Academy of Management, Poppie Alifraghi Maria Pigadioti Maria Pigadioti (DC ’94) the British Computer Society, graduated with a BA in the European Group of 1995 English and was a member of Organizational Studies and the Karate Club during her the First International college years. In 2005, she Network of Trust. Her Aristotelis Dimitropoulos obtained an MBA in finance expertise on change (DC ’96) earned a BS in from the University of La and IS management has marketing and business Verne in the USA. Maria enabled her to act as adviser administration. He is the Key worked in the area of human to organizations within Account Manager of Nestle resources for Allied Domecq different sectors : retail, Waters Direct Hellas SA ,a plc and for OTEplus, the transport, banking. subsidiary of Nestle consulting arm of the OTE You can contact (the world’s leading food Group of Companies. She is Tally Hatzakis at and bottled water currently a Human Resources [email protected] . Aristotelis Dimitropoulos company). Nestle Waters Manager at the Piraeus Direct Hellas SA branch of the Royal Bank of Michael Protolatis (DC ’95) bottles and distributes Scotland. She is the mother of graduated with a BS in bottled water directly to a young girl and married to accounting and finance. In customers’ homes and Alexandros Anagnostopoulos. 1996, he obtained an MS in offices. Nestle’s image and They live in Metamorfossi. Management from Boston reputation for consistently You can contact Maria at University. He currently delivering quality is a [email protected] works for Ethniki AEEGA, cornerstone of its success. NBG Group as a Unit The international brands Rania Toutountzakis Manager and lives in Palea of Nestle Waters are familiar (DC ’94) graduated with a BA Penteli with his wife , on tables throughout the in English literature. She is Sophia Georgiakakis. world: Perrier , Vittel , Contrex , the owner of the You can contact S. Pellegrino , Acqua Panna Toutountzaki Rania Foreign Michael at and ΚΟΡΠΗ . Today, Nestle Tally Hatzakis Languages School , where she [email protected] Waters is a thriving business

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Maria Roussakis (DC ’97) earned a BA in sociology and worked as a journalist before beginning her career as an award-winning children’s book writer. She has published 12 books in the United States and Greece. She is married to Filippos Villas and they have three children. You can visit her website at: www.mariasbooks.com

Maria Strintzi (DC ’97) received a BA in psychology in 1997 and then obtained an MS in marriage and family therapy from Northwestern University in Chicago in 2002. George Karabelas (DC ’97) was married to Sfalagkou on August 30, at the Athens Golf club. She has had her own private Best man was Kostas Apostolidis along with his wife Anna. practice in Athens since 2004, The Office of Alumni Relations wishes them all happiness! working with individuals, couples and families dealing with headquarters in Paris. With wife Natalie Tsaldarakis, with interpersonal problems. In 2006, it sold its 1997 he formed the Ivory Duo She has also worked as a 72 brands of bottled water two-piano team in 1997. In family counselor for children worldwide, with CHF 9.6 Panayotis Archontides the past year , the duo has with learning difficulties. billion in sales. (DC ‘97) was selected as received coaching from Maria recently completed a Aristotelis lives in recipient of the coveted Douglas Finch, former Head seminar on creative writing Athens with his wife Silver Medal of the of Keyboard at Trinity and is keen on pastry making Georgia; they are expecting Worshipful Company of College of Music, Elena Riu, a and dancing. You can reach a baby soon. Musicians for excellence in piano professor Trinity Maria at [email protected] He loves tennis, soccer performance. Panayotis College of Music, and and swimming. graduated in 2007 from Vanessa Latarche, You can contact Trinity College of Music with Head of Keyboard at Royal 1998 Aristotelis at a master of music in piano College of Music. Panayotis [email protected] performance, receiving a premiered his own distinction for his lecture arrangements of classics of Chrysoula Dali (DC ’98) Peggy Theodorou (DC ’96) recital on Miklos Rozsa, and film music with the Ivory graduated with a BS in graduated with a BS in high distinction for his Duo at London’s Regent Hall business administration with management and graduate recital before a in August 2008. a concentration in marketing organizational behaviour. distinguished jury that The success of the premiere and management. While in She has been working included well-known was such that the recital will college, she was a member in the banking sector for pianists Philip Fowke, be given again at the famous of the Marketing Society. more than 15 years in Douglas Finch and Gordon Purcell Room at the She is currently an various positions in the Fergus-Thompson. Also in Southbank Centre in the Investment Executive at areas of human resources, 2007, Panayotis performed spring of 2009. The duo’s Citibank International plc quality management and Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety 2009 recitals will take them and lives in Thessaloniki with marketing. Since 1999, she under the baton of well to Wigmore Hall, Charlton her husband , Ioannis has been with Millennium respected conductor James House and St-Martin-in-the- Kolokythas. You can contact Bank, initially as Human Judd, and gave debut Fields , among other venues. Chrysoula at Resources Director, recitals at the Steinway Hall Natalie Tsaldarakis [email protected] and as Quality Director (London), at Lauderdale and Panayotis Archontides since 2004. House and at the became members of the She is married to Cheltenham Concert series. Alink-Argerich Foundation 1999 Dr. George Zoumis. In November 2007, in July 2008. They have two children and Panayotis presented a solo For information, videos, live in Markopoulo, just recital in celebration of the tracks and links you can visit Constantinos outside of Athens. centenary of Miklos Rozsa at www.natalie-peter.com . Charalambous (DC ’99) You can contact Peggy at St Giles’, Cripplegate , at the Don’t hesitate graduated with a BS in Peggy.Theodorou@millenniu Barbican, promoted by the to contact them for more marketing and , in 2000 , mbank.gr official Miklos Rozsa Society. information. obtained an MS in marketing

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Maria Roussakis Maria Strintzi Antonia Kouka Carolina Georgatou from the University of Surrey. In 2000, he obtained an MS in The following year , he Her bridesmaid was also a DC He is a Marketing Manager at operational research from obtained an MS in alumna! Marina can be Mytilinaios SA . He and his Lancaster University and information systems and reached at wife, alumna Vasiliki currently works as a Corporate technology from City [email protected] Mytilineou, live in Athens. Marketing and University in London. After You can contact Communications Officer at completion of his military Antonia Kouka (DC ’01) Constantinos at AIG Greece. Dimitris is married obligations, he worked for graduated with a BA in arts [email protected] to Anna Moukiou (DC‘99, AAS half a year at Elbisco and sciences. In 2005 , she Degree in Secretarial Studies) , Commercial SA before obtained a PG diploma in Carolina Georgatou (DC ’99) an HR Assistant at Coca Cola moving to Nestle Hellas SA , humanities from the received a BA in psychology Hellas, and they live in Pefki. where he stayed for University of Manchester in and obtained an MS in You can contact Dimitris at approximately three years. the UK, majoring in learning public relations from Stirling [email protected] He is currently working as a disabilities. She is the co- University in 2002. She has Lancia brand manager at Fiat owner of the K. Fotopoulos – been pursuing a promising Vasiliki Mytilineou (DC ’99) Group Automobiles Hellas SA A. Kouka firm. She lives in career in the received a BS in marketing in and lives in Neo Iraklio with her three- communications field for the and obtained an MA in Kato Patissia. You can year-old daughter Areti and past six years. She marketing communication contact Angelos at is engaged to George commenced her career with from Bournemouth [email protected] Karaboulas. You can contact a two -month internship at University in 2000. She is the Antonia at the Red Consultancy in General Manager of [email protected] London in 2002 and then Mytilinaios SA, and lives in returned to Greece , where Athens with her husband, 2001 Panos Michalarogiannis she served as the Head of alumnus Constantinos (DC ’01) graduated with a BS Alumni Relations at Ziridis Charalambous. You can Marina Georgaki (DC ’01) in business administration. Educational Organization contact Vasiliki at graduated with a BA in While in college, Panagiotis (2002-2003). She moved to [email protected] business administration , worked for more than three Civitas in 2004 , where she majoring in marketing years for the Office of Student worked as a Project management. A few months Affairs. He was also a member Manager for a year. Carolina 2000 after graduating , she was of the Ambassadors and an has been working for ING hired by Yiotis, one of the active member of the Greece since 2005 as Head biggest food companies in Management Society. In 2003, of Internal and External Antonis Antoniou (DC ’00) Greece. She first worked as a he obtained an MBA in Communications and ING obtained a BS in accounting Junior Product Manager and , corporate finance from the Renault F1 Manager , and and finance and is co-owner in 2003 , was promoted to University of Leicester. He was recently appointed of L. Antoniou Home -Made Product Manager. She lives in Athens and is a First Brand Manager Pastries and lives in Rafina. enthusiastically recalls that at the Global Branding You can contact Antonis at ACG provided her with the Department of ING Group in [email protected] accoutrements to face her Don’t Forget... Amsterdam. You can every -day job tasks and Let us know if a fellow class- contact Carolina at Evangelos Tsilidis (DC ’00) challenges and to help her mate does not receive our [email protected] Having graduated from start her own medical magazine. Send us his or Junior College with the products company , SANIMED , Dimitris Kontogiannis President’s Award for Highest in September 2005. Marina is her e-mail address at (DC ’99) received a BS in Academic Achievement, keen on dancing, a hobby she [email protected] business administration , Evangelos Tsilidis earned a BS started while she was a so we can make majoring in management. in business administration , student at ACG , and is sure we all While in college, he was a with a double major in currently learning Flamenco. Stay Connected! member of the Ambassadors. marketing and management. In July 2008 , she got married.

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Fond Memories Please Note What stands out in your All information contained memory from your years at in the “Class Notes” Sec - ACG? Your fellow alumni tion has been obtained ei - would like to know. Share ther from Alumni Update favorite stories by submit - Forms sent to the Office of ting them to the Office of Alumni Relations or from Alumni Relations (e-mail: publicized reports that are [email protected], Thalia Vouvonikou Despina Andrioteli part of the public record. fax: 210 600 9601). All personal data obtained by the Office of Alumni Executive (short -term assignment in Frankfurt, Relations is kept exclu - Germany). In 2007 , she sively for the College's moved to Hellas On Line SA , needs in accordance with where she held the post of HR Manager ; she is currently the relevant law (N. an HR Manager 2472/1997). Information at Henkel Hellas SA. Thalia lives in . may be published in pub - You can contact her at : lications of The American [email protected] College of Greece, unless Katerina Psareli Violeta Xanthouli otherwise indicated by the individual. In case of Business Bank Relationship You can contact 2002 Manager at the First Business Katerina at an omission or erroneous Bank FBB. [email protected] information in your indi - You can contact Panos at Despina Andrioteli (DC ’02) [email protected] Thalia Vouvonikou (DC ’01) graduated with a BA in vidual item in Class Notes, received a BA in sociology economics and was a please send us the correct Katerina Psareli (DC ’01) and obtained an MA in member of the Economics information and we will graduated with a BS in human resources Society while in college. She business administration , management from the Leeds is currently a Financial note it in our next issue. majoring in organizational University Business School in Analyst at Nestle Hellas SA behavior. She started her the UK in 2002. She and lives in Athens. BA in European Cultural career at Ernst & Young SA as commenced her career the You can contact Studies at the Hellenic Open a Human Capital Consultant, same year in the HR Despina at University via distant staying for three years before Department of Inform P. [email protected] learning. She is also an moving to Adecco SA as a Lycos SA, where she was a English teacher at alumna Senior Consultant providing Recruitment and Elena Dourou (DC ’02) Gogo Kabiotou – Liapi’s recruitment and Development Coordinator. graduated in 2002 with a BA foreign languages center in outplacement services to She then moved to the HR in accounting and finance; both Inofita and Dilesi, clients. She is currently a Department of First Data she obtained a chartered where alumna Georgia Recruitment Supervisor at International SA in 2005, accountant certificate Demertzoglou (DC’02) also Germanos AVEE. where she worked as a (ACCA) in 2006, and a teaches. Irene is married to She married Apostolos Human Resources Generalist, certified internal auditor Nicholas and they live in Kapatos last September as Recruitment and Staffing certificate (CIA) in 2002. with their daughter and they live in Athens. Supervisor and as an HR She is an Internal Audit Maria and she is Manager at Piraeus Bank expecting her second Life is More than Work and lives in Vrilissia with her child. Whenever husband, Dimitris she has the chance she Recently married? Had a child? Just published a book? Were Koulopoulos. travels abroad honored for your achievements and contributions? Partic - You can contact Elena at with her husband ipated in an African safari or learned how to sail? Got a pro - [email protected] and experiencing different motion at work or started a new company? Your fellow kinds of cultures. So far she alumni would like to know! Fill out our Update Form and Irene Spentzou (DC ’02) has been to Paris, Prague received a BA in English send it to the Office of Alumni Relations by e-mail at and London. You may Literature in 2002 and is contact Irene at [email protected], or by fax at 210 600 9601. currently pursuing a second [email protected]

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Anna Peleti (JC ’00, DC ’03) graduated from Junior College and went on to Deree College , where she obtained a BA in psychology. From January 2003 to June 2006, she worked as a Student Assistant for the Office of Alumni Relations. In June 2006, she left her job to accompany her husband , Thodoris Kagkas, to , where he had been stationed by the military. Alumna Zoe Tritsaroli (DC‘97) and Napoleon Avgoustis, baptized their son at the Panagitsa church of Anna and Thodoris have a Palaio Faliro. Their son’s name is Nikiforos. Deree alumni from the class of 1997, Zoe’s friends all, were also daughter, who was born on present. From left: George & Artemis Karabellas (DC’97), Andreas Hallack (DC’97), Stamoulis Pavlou March 27, 2008. (DC’97), Teta Drakopoulou (DC’97), Zeta Tzioti (CD’97), Napoleon Avgoustis, Christos Tembas, Zoe (Anna: Congratulations Tritsaroli, Elias & Rosaria Ninos (DC’97), at the celebration. from all of the ACG community on the birth of your daughter and every success in your new full-lifetime time job!)

Antonios Tsatsakis (DC ’03) graduated in 2003 with a BA in economics. He went on to study in Italy , where he obtained an MA in internal economics and management from SDA Bocconi in 2004. He recently became a Deree Alumni Representative (DAR) for Canada. He currently lives and works in Toronto at Nortel Networks , in the field of Global Marketing. You can contact Antonis at [email protected] A backstage photo of alumnae (from left) Joanna Pegou (DC‘05), Victoria Colsuzian (DC‘05) and Fani Apostolidou (DC‘06). They pose in their costumes right before going on stage in Euripides’ tragedy Helen as Dioskouros, Helen of Troy, and Theonoe respectively, performed last summer Violeta Xanthouli (DC ’03) at the drama school“Theater of Changes” they currently attend! received a BS in marketing management and department. Her duties and for PC Games. international business and , involved focusing on to- Apart from her work, she 2004 while still a student in partner and through- likes to play basketball , both January 2002, started partner marketing as well as with the Deree Alumni Team Elena Sbokou (DC ’04) working at Grant Thornton on the channel’s readiness and with colleagues and graduated with a BA in art Business Consulting as a to sell Microsoft’s products friends whenever she gets history and continued her Marketing Consultant. and technologies . Since the chance. studies in the UK , where she She stayed there for just January 2006, she has been She is also keen on scuba obtained an MA in curating under two years, and in working in Microsoft’s diving . Her latest endeavor is contemporary design from November 2003 she moved Entertainment & Devices a distance MBA at Warwick Kingston University in 2005 . to Microsoft, where division and is responsible University, which she started She lives in Athens and is a she held the position of for all product marketing pursuing in January 2008. Design Curator at i4d Ltd, Channel Marketing activities for the Xbox 360 You can contact Violeta at the first 20th century design Specialist at the sales range of products [email protected] and decorative arts gallery

The American College of Greece Magazine, Fall 2008 - Winter 2009 67 Alumni in Greece. You can Harefield NHS Trust. contact Elena at You can contact Lefteris at Help Future Leaders [email protected] [email protected] Want to help today's Deree College and Pierce College stu - Vuk Djukic (DC ’05) dents and future fellow alumni? Volunteer to offer career graduated with a BS in advice in your area of expertise, and help prepare a new 2005 international business. generation of leaders. For more information call the Office During his college years , he Eleftherios Bibakis (DC ’05) was a member of the Student of Alumni Relations at 210 600 9800, ext: 1370. graduated with a BS in Union and a member of the business administration , basketball team. He currently After completing that degree personal assistant to the majoring in management lives in Belgrade and works in 2001, she went on to study regional manager of GFK and accounting and finance. for Sinteza Invest Group as a at Deree College , where she Market Analysis, and now is He is currently pursuing an Financial Analyst. You can majored in international also personal assistant to the MS in finance at London contact Vuk at business and European affairs director of the Celebrity School of Economics and [email protected] and earned a BS International transportation Political Science and in business administration. company. She lives in Glyka expects to graduate in June Tina Doumani (DC ’05) She worked in several Nera with her husband, 2009. He lives in London and started working towards an administrative assistant Michael Siamos, a Pierce is an EU Projects associate degree in applied positions at The American College classics teacher. You Coordinator at the science in executive College of Greece until July can reach Tina at Royal Brompton & secretarial studies in 1998. 2004. Later she became [email protected] o

In Memoriam

John Hamilos (DC ’93)

Our friend and 1993 Deree College graduate, John Hamilos, passed away on April 6th 2008, in a tragic ac - cident. His sudden loss has left all of us who knew and loved him in awe. John’s wife, his mother and his younger sister were devastated, especially since his death came so soon after his wedding. We will always remember John smiling his way through all difficulties, being at the center of fun through - out our student years, and being the serious professional and wonderful colleague he was at Procter & Gamble. We will always remember you John. DC Yearbook ’93 John Nikolaidis (DC ’92) On behalf of his fellow classmates and colleagues

Catherine Kallergis (PC’ 89, DC ’97)

Our dear friend, You may have departed for good, yet within us your presence is livelier than ever. We are tearful because we weren’t given the chance to take you in our arms to say goodbye and remind you how much we loved you and cared for you, yet we hear your voice reverberating in our ears, reminding us that the only reasonable reaction to life's absurdity is not silent tears but loud, crazy laughter. Our minds can only make sense of your absence by pronouncing it unfair, yet our hearts know that you have set off on your great journey to a gracious realm that you deserve far more than the plane of gross material DC Yearbook ’87 existence that you have left behind. Our whole beings grieve as we won't be able to share any more precious moments of life-affirming joy with you, yet our sorrow is lessened in the knowledge that in your newfound realm you have surely found abun - dant joy in the peaceful contemplation of the Creator's Infinite Artwork. May your gentle soul ascend to Grace and be nurtured within a Higher Love that is pure and unconditional. May your memory be everlasting in the hearts and minds of those who were fortunate enough to be your friends. Her friends and fellow classmates

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Questions you always wanted to answer but were never asked !

Your best attribute as a student at Deree? I cannot decide, either not going to a Greek university or being a member of the women’s basketball team. Difficult choice… Marianna Polykrati (DC94) , is Group Treasurer of Vivartia S.A. Your favorite course? She holds a Master of Science Financial Statement Analysis degree in finance from the Boston College Carroll Graduate School of Management. Your least favorite course? Polykrati is also a member of the Anything that had do to with Economics Deree alumni basketball team.

Your favorite professor? Professor Mordochae

Your closest buddies at the College? Katerina, Penny, Ioanna, Rena

A long-term friendship that started during your College years? Rena

Your most embarrassing moment as a student? During my first match with the women’s basketball team when playing against members of the faculty I was hit and knocked flat on the floor by one of the professors.

Your most cherished spot on campus? Any place that had to do with exercise and eating – i.e., the gym and Wendy’s! ACG Confidential Your favorite thing to do in your free time as a student.? submits randomly This is a very difficult question, hanging around the gym? selected graduates – men or women, younger or The most valuable asset your Deree education gave you? older, from all walks Networking and WBA (not publicly available information) of life – to a standard questionnaire about their experiences at the College What do you miss most about College life? and the way the College Carefree-ness shaped their course in life. Through these stories and What do you regret not having done during your College years ? recollections emerges Nothing, I always did whatever I wanted to do. a tableau of common experiences as well as If you could change one thing about your time at Deree, what would it be? unique individual This is so easy: nothing! moments that make the College Your motto in life? a special part of each You can conquer everything with a smile graduate's life story.

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Deree always by my side By Demetris Zenetos*

long sleepless nights in Boston preparing sionally and personally. for those stressful case study deadlines; Especially in this day and age, when we and even more Deree Alumni cooperating are all living through testing historic efficiently and helping deliver the most events and the financial crisis has cut successful post-war Greek project: the through international borders as if they Athens Olympic Games! never existed, it is more important than No contest, Deree has always been ever to understand how interconnected there by my side! we all are, yet how differently each mar - When I drew upon my banking opera - ket reacts to this crisis. To realise the per - tional experience to move into the proj - sonal characteristics that make us unique ect management arena and work for the as individuals yet to be able to compre - Athens Organising Committee (ATHOC), it hend the common threads that connect was a fellow alumnus who trusted me and the global business world, are very chal - When I first heard the term“Greek-some - introduced me to ATHOC. Moving later to lenging activities and important success things” a couple of years ago from some London to work on further integration factors for all young professionals like my - friends, I found the terminology incredi - projects it was once again Deree alumni self. Thankfully, I believe that one never bly witty and to the point. As a Greek- that made sure to welcome me to this stops learning these success traits and American born in Boston and raised in new country. And last but not least, the can constantly develop as a professional Athens - a true“Greek-something”- I have greatest proof of how our college is every - and as a human being; And this it some - been blessed with a dual soul by living in where is when in 2003 I married fellow thing I strive daily to accomplish. both these beautiful nations. A life of con - alumna Marianna Skliri. Marianna, has not Want to guess where I was taught that stantly combining different lifestyles, mi - only been my best companion during from, also..? o grating through diverse traditions and of these latest international endeavors, but course gaining the best of both countries’ has been another great ambassador of educational systems. Do I regret a mo - the College by working successfully in the * Demetris Zenetos (DC ’95) is senior con - ment of this struggle? Not one bit! City in an executive position for an Amer - sultant of PIPC (Global Holding Company Having graduated from Greek public ican bank that is a global leader in whole - Ltd). He is married to Marianna Skliris (DC high school, I entered Deree College dur - sale financial services. ‘02), an assistant vice president / client serv - ing the unforgettable 90’s (the yearly Any doubt? Deree: always there by my ice manager at JP Morgan Chase. “Slave Bazaars” and the “Back to the side! Beach” Tuesdays on the College lawn will Despite my international blood and the be embedded in my memory forever) bug in my system that excites me when and in 1995 I returned to Boston for my working on international transformation postgraduate studies. It was a good time programmes (of, the UK government, a to study in the US. The internet boom and global retail organization, a European the dot.com era pushed me into an MBA banking consortium, and the Dubai gov - with an IT focus, but it was the banking ernment), I think it is very important to industry that won me at the start of my keep your roots in mind. Remembering career. Retail banking and back office op - where you come from gives you a solid erations gave me the chance to work base that helps you understand what is within financial institutions of a global important in life. It provides you with scale and helped me build a valuable valuable experience on which you can business network that would later assist base crucial decisions, both professional my return to Greece for work. and personal. It differentiates you from Needless to say, Deree was always there colleagues who do not understand what by my side! Athletics alumni (Soccer Blue “international” truly means; and it always Dogs, I salute you) playing 5x5 on week - gives you a reference point when consid - nights; fellow alumni with whom I spent ering where home is – again both profes -

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